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- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
- The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. — Lord Byron
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron
- Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — Lord Byron