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Don’t you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The Tower of the Elephant (1933)

Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

The Scarlet Citadel (1933)

"I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!"

Red Shadows (1928)

They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.

The Pit of the Serpent (1929)

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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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