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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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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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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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