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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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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. – 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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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. – Don Marquis

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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. Its one of the great things poetry does. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949

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