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- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. — John Ruskin
- All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
- It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. — John Ruskin
- Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. — Wislawa Szymborska
- Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. — Wislawa Szymborska
- I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska