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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand The Haunted Pool (1890)

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He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.

The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.

He would spend six weeks on one page, only to end up writing it just as he had traced it in his first outpouring.

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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