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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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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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