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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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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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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. – Karl Shapiro

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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