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• 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
  Appear in writing or in judging ill;
  But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
  To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
  Alexander Pope
• The words the happy say
  Are paltry melody
  But those the silent feel
  Are beautiful
  Emily Dickinson
• A little learning is a dangerous thing;
  Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
  There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain.
  And drinking largely sobers us again.
  Alexander Pope
• Poems are made by fools like me,
  But only God can make a tree.
  Alfred Joyce Kilmer
• Language is an art, like brewing or baking; but writing would have been a much more appropriate simile. It certainly is not a true instinct, as every language has to be learnt. It differs, however, widely from all ordinary arts, for man has an instinctive tendency to speak. . . whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write.
  Charles Darwin
• It is interesting that the words which are least used, least written and the least spoken are the very ones which are best known and most widely recognized.
  Michel Eyquem deMontaigne
• Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  Mark Twain
• We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
  John Keats
• People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
  Abraham Lincoln