“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.” —Lord Byron

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life

—Margot Asquith

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully

—William Cullen Bryant