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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is a

All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. – Gustave Flaubert

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If a poem is not memorable, theres probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. – Robert Morgan

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if hes going to write poetry or songs. – Roger Waters

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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