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| Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote |
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| Jean Giraudoux Quote |
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. -- Jean Giraudoux
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| Kahlil Gibran Quote |
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. -- Kahlil Gibran
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| Anon. Quote |
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother. -- Anon.
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| John Keats Quote |
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. -- John Keats
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| G. C. Lichtenberg Quote |
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. -- G. C. Lichtenberg
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| Russell Baker Quote |
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. -- Russell Baker
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| Pablo Casals Quote |
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. -- Pablo Casals
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| Oscar Wilde Quote |
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. -- Oscar Wilde
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| Thomas Carlyle Quote |
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. -- Thomas Carlyle
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