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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to sa

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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