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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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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William Wordsworth

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. – Janine Turner

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