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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most.

- William Congreve

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

- St. Augustine

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

- Thomas Carlyle

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

- George Grabbe

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

- John Fletcher

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

- Gilfillan

Let your poem be kept nine years.

- Horace

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

- H. M. Tomlinson

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

- Voltaire

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

- Don Marquis

I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

- Edmund Spenser