Quote by George Murray
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend its no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often its really just about the money, the perceived prestige. – George Murray

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Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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Poetry
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Well, we all start thinking were going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. – George Murray

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All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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