Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

Joseph Brodsky
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  3. Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. - Roy T. Bennett

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  5. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond

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  1. Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

  2. For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

  3. ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  4. ... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....

  5. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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