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- Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
- R.Z. Sheppard, book critic
- There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
- Robert Ranke Graves (b. 1895)
- It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), Norweigen Playwright
- Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
- Christopher Fry
- In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta.
- Legal Times, 2/15/93
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