"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
-Joseph Roux
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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
-Joseph Roux
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
-Joseph Roux
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
-Joseph Roux
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"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
-Joseph Roux
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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
-Judith Rodriguez
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"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
-John Colville
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"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold."
-Diane Glancy
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
-Toi Derricotte
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
-Christopher Smart
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
-Zona Gale
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