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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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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard

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

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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