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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a tal

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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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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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

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Come, lets have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Lets mock the midnight bell. – William Shakespeare

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