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“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”
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“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out”
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“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason”
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
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“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
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“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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