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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. - Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. – Gustave Flaubert

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Winter
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art
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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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Poetry

Ive read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore

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Poetry

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden

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Im not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God. – Christina Aguilera

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. – Earl Campbell

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