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Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.: Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), "Tradition and the Individual Talent", II (The Sacred Wood, 1922)
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.: Napoleon Hill
This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

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