Gerald Brenan's Quote - The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

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The cliche is dead poetry. - Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. – Gerald Brenan

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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. – Gerald Brenan

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We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. – Tobias Wolff

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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