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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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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. – June Jordan

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. – Stephen Spender

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. – Walter Savage Landor

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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