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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- A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
- Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
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