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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.

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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

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I am a trial lawyer… Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

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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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