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Quote by Paul Valéry
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valéry

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. РPaul Val̩ry

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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. – Paul Valéry

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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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