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A poet can survive anything but a misprint. - Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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Compression of poetry is so great I often explode. Out of the house to walk off a poem. – William Corbett, “On Reading: Notes & a Poem,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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