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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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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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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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