“ Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
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“ Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. ”
- Sir John Denham- Copy
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“ For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive… ”
- William Barclay- Copy
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“ The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. ”
- Robert E. Lee- Copy
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“ Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. ”
- Wilfred Owen- Copy
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“ The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. ”
- Augustus Hare- Copy
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“ It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her. ”
- Sam Brownback- Copy
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“ It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one. ”
- Mary Montagu- Copy
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“ But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ”
- Eugenio Montale- Copy
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