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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)

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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Eastward Hoe (1605)

Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

All Fools (1605)

Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

The Gentleman Usher (1606)

As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air.

The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)

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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)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

T. S. Eliot

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