"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."
-William C. Bryant
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.“
-William C. Bryant
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
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"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."
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"The groves were God's first temples."
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"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
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