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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. – Don Marquis

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, theres a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, theres so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. – Lena Dunham

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The poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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