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OF WRITING, WHO SAID?

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In history, poets cannot live without politicians, but without poets the world cannot go on.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction... 
By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. 

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. 

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. 

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. 

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

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FALSE FRIENDS QUIZ

In which country could you be misunderstood with the English word?

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Angina

Undulate

Gift

Embarrassed

Trap

Morbid

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Test your poetic knowledge

POETS: WHO BEGAN WITH?

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I met a traveller from an antique land…

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains  …

You do not do, you do not do…

All year the flax-dam festered in the heart…

Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit…

I leant upon a coppice gate…

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