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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

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