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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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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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Bores
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Don Marquis

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand, 1851

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[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed. – James Schwartz

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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