Gustave Flaubert's Quote - Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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

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

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I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert

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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. – Gustave Flaubert

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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldnt agree with Bly that its a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. – James Laughlin

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. – Muriel Rukeyser

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