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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valéry

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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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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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