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I wanted to find out why Shelley could write better-sounding poetry than I.

— Peter Ladefoged Los Angeles Times (1970)

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My immediate answer was, 'I don't have a singing butler and three maids who sing, but I will tell you what I can as an assistant professor.'

Los Angeles Times (2004)

The International Phonetic Association is like the Episcopal church. One can hold almost any theoretical position as long as one gets the symbols right.

It was really [David] Whitteridge who taught me to be a scientist.

[It's] not our decision to make. It's up to the people themselves.

National Public Radio (1999)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

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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