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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. – Shelby Foote

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. – Abbas Kiarostami

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg

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Most people cant tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that cant be related to other forms of historical poetry. – Thurston Moore

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