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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could, it is not an animate entity or agent, it is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine. a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own...

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, people

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about life, objects, poetry, common sense, sense

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry, dream, children, mind