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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down th

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: dont change diapers in midstream. – Don Marquis

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic

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The older Ive got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. – Reynolds Price

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. – Norman MacCaig

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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

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