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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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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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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – 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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Other Quotes from
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. – W.B. Yeats

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Poetry

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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Poetry

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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Random Quotes

Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

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The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. – Lionel Messi

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sad

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership. – David Vitter

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Leadership

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. – Chanakya

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