"The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, is always the first to be touched by the thorns." ~Thomas Moore
"A man is himself, plus the books he reads." ~Samuel Parkes Cadman
"Poetry is something that should stir our emotion, or make us think new thoughts; whatever can do neither the one nor the other may be very good verse, but it is not poetry." ~Lafcadio Hearn
"What is a Poet? To whom does he address himself? And what language is to be expected from him? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them." ~William Wordsworth
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