Quote by David Hare
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from th

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare

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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. – David Hare

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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. – Anthony Hope

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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