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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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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – 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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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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Poetry

But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

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