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" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. "
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" Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. "
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" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "
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" So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. "
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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
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" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "
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" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
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" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "
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You
" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "
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" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
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" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "
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" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "
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" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "
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" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "
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" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "
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