Quote by Shelby Foote
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there i

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario Cuomo

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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