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Poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty.
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There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations. To be sensible of the truth of only one of these, is to know the truth but by halves.
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Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
October 19, 1784
Died:
August 28, 1859
(aged 74)
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