Quotes with oracle

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• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery
  French poet (1871 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• heart-felt
• mistaking
• discovery
• metaphor
• verbiage
• capital

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