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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. - Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. – Don Marquis

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Business
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Don Marquis
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The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

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Party Invitation
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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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Poetry
[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Prose talks and poetry sings. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry

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