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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love.

Henry David Thoreau

Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

Voltaire

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

William Watson

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Walt Whitman

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

William Carlos Williams

Poets are not supposed to write epics any longer, despite the fact that the only poets who have endured and will endure are poets who have written epics.

Tom Wolfe

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Wordsworth

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My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

- Jayaprakash Narayan

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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

- Maya Angelou

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

- G. K. Chesterton

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