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Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar Love and a Bottle (1698)

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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I see you have a singing face — a heavy, dull, sonata face.

Charming women can true converts make,
We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.

The Constant Couple (1699)

’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.

The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

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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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