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• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

  Robert Frost1874–1963

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

• Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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