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

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Gustave Flaubert
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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Ive always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I dont think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. – Justin Townes Earle

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Poetry

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend its no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often its really just about the money, the perceived prestige. – George Murray

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Poetry

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry

Without philosophy there can be no true poetry: without it pretty verses may, indeed, be made; but in order to be really a poet it is essential to be also, up to a certain point, a philosopher. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously. – Thomas Sowell

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. – Oscar Wilde

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Creative minds are rarely tidy. – John William Gardner, “Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society,”

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Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts. – Tony Visconti

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