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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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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

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Poetry

I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry

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I think its unethical to take money for poor quality performance. – Alvin Burger

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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. – William Griffith Wilson

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Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. – Prince

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Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. – Author Unknown

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