Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or gems:
“The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Too often when you thought youd be showered with confetti
What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti
Youve put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock
Yet you pause before your fathers door afraid to knock”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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