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

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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 think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. – Shelby Foote

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – 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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[P]oetry, that pearl of intelligence and life, reflects on our brow some pale rays of the glory that has faded away from it. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Im not an academic, but Ive always loved poetry since Ive been small. – Naveen Andrews

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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