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As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities.

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A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

We have a very clear evidence of freedom in the equality recognized by all the good in addressing each other.

Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.

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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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