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Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)”

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Dickinson

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

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Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)”

If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson

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Quote from “Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1800)”

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

William Wordsworth

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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children

Mahatma Gandhi

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

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Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer”

A poem...begins as a lump in the throat,
a sense of wrong,
a homesickness,
a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry

William Butler Yeats

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

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Quote from “Attributed”

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

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