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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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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. – Fred Durst

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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And I know Im supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books… and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I cant quite muster the guilt anymore. – Julianna Baggott

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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