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Famous quotes by Poets

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
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"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"What is art? Prostitution"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"Evil is done without effort; naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
Charles Baudelaire
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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"To begin, begin"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"The child is father of the man"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart"
William Wordsworth, Poet
William Wordsworth
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"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
Robert Browning, Poet
Robert Browning
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"Faultless to a fault"
Robert Browning, Poet
Robert Browning
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay"
Robert Browning, Poet
Robert Browning
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning, Poet
Robert Browning
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"'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!"
Robert Browning, Poet
Robert Browning
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"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives"
Siegfried Sassoon, Poet
Siegfried Sassoon
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"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges
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"The central problem of novel-writing is causality"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges
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"In general, every country has the language it deserves"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges
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"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
Jorge Luis Borges
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"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
Henrik Ibsen
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
Henrik Ibsen
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