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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.: Frederick William Robertson
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.: L. Schefer
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Honoring Robert Frost
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.: Zona Gale
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.: William E. Channing

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