"Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world."

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Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Richard Eberhart

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“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”
“I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.”
“Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press
“If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”
“The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.”
“As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a worthwhile effort. I thank Chairman Priebus and Co-Chairman Day for making this a priority. We need to ensure our message of growth and opportunity is being heard in all communities throughout this nation, and I am proud to be a part of this effort.”
“Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.”

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