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“But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.”

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Book:The White Goddess

Source: The White Goddess

“How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.”

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Book:The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum

Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum

“The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.”

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Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.”

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Author:William Wordsworth

“Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.”

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Author:Brooks Atkinson