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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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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – 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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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali

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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

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