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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.: Stefan Kanfer
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?: Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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