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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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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness
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Gustave Flaubert
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Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature
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The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

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Poetry

My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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Poetry

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry

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