Quote by Gerald Brenan
The cliche is dead poetry. - Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. – Elliot Paul

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Suffering is one of lifes great teachers. – Bryant H. McGill

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. – Jean Baudrillard

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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. – Beverly Jones

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