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Quote DB :: Authors :: GK Chesterton :: View Quote View Quote "The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say." - Copy to Clipboard   --  GK Chesterton Listed in: Poetry Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.33  Rate Quote 3 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from GK Chesterton "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." Top 5 quotes from Poetry "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

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