"The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed."
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"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."
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"I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become."
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"There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent."
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"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we."
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"En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows."
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"I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened."
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"God is the poetic genius in each of us."
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"After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths."
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"In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic."
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"I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties."
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"There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance."
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"The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive."
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"I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist."
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"Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American."
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