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- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Rating: 0/5 Author: Paul Valery Subject: Poetry
- A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized
elsewhere.Rating: 0/5 Author: W. H. Auden Subject: Poetry
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he
begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.Rating: 0/5 Author: Samuel McChord Crothers Subject: Poetry
- All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.Rating: 0/5 Author: G. K. Chesterton Subject: Poetry
- Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts
to bend or break them.Rating: 0/5 Author: Robert Graves Subject: Poetry
- I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took
out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.Rating: 0/5 Author: Oscar Wilde Subject: Poetry
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by
everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.Rating: 0/5 Author: Anonymous Subject: Poetry
- Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal
night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Rating: 0/5 Author: Horace Subject: Poetry
- Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.Rating: 0/5 Author: Anonymous Subject: Poetry
- One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Rating: 0/5 Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Subject: Poetry
- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should
strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.Rating: 0/5 Author: John Keats Subject: Poetry
- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.Rating: 0/5 Author: G. K. Chesterton Subject: Poetry
- The freedom of poetic license.Rating: 0/5 Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Subject: Poetry
- The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a
helpless thing.Rating: 1/5 Author: Walt Whitman Subject: Poetry
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being
misunderstood.Rating: 0/5 Author: Jean Cocteau Subject: Poetry
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