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// Store some random quotations

function rand ( n )
{
	return ( Math.floor ( Math.random ( ) * n + 1 ) );
}

var random_quote = new Array ( );
var random_author = new Array ( );

// Enter Quotes here
random_quote[0]  = "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth <br> There is no happiness like mine.  <br> I have been eating poetry.";
random_author[0] = "Mark Strand <i>Eating Poetry, Reasons for Moving, 1968</i>";
random_quote[1]  = "Poetry is what gets lost in translation.";
random_author[1] = "Robert Frost";
random_quote[2]  = "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.";
random_author[2] = "Marianne Moore's definition of poetry<i> Poetry, Collected Poems, 1951</i>";
random_quote[3]  = "Always be a poet, even in prose.";
random_author[3] = "Charles Baudelaire <i>My Heart Laid Bare, Intimate Journals, 1864</i>";
random_quote[4]  = "Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.";
random_author[4] = "Eli Khamarov<i> The Shadow Zone</i>";
random_quote[5]  = "Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.  Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.  Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.";
random_author[5] = "Carl Sandburg<i>Poetry Considered</i>";
random_quote[6]  = "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.";
random_author[6] = "Percy Shelley<i> A Defence of Poetry, 1821</i>";
random_quote[7]  = "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.";
random_author[7] = "Plato<i> Ion</i>";
random_quote[8]  = "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.";
random_author[8] = "W.B. Yeats";
random_quote[9]  = "The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be.  Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.";
random_author[9] = "Aristotle<i> On Poetics</i>";
random_quote[10]  = "Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.";
random_author[10] = "John Keats";
random_quote[11] = "A poet can survive everything but a misprint.";
random_author[11]= "Oscar Wilde";
random_quote[12]  = "To see the Summer Sky <br> Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - <br> True Poems flee.";
random_author[12] = "Emily Dickinson";
random_quote[13]  = "Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.";
random_author[13] = "John Keats";
random_quote[14] = "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.";
random_author[14]= "Percy Byshe Shelley";

// enter total number of quotes here
var count = 15;


// find a different random numbers in range
var randnr = rand(count)-1;

// assign quote and author
var randquote = random_quote[randnr];
var randauthor = random_author[randnr];

// write output
document.write(randquote + "<br><b>-- " + randauthor + "</b>");


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