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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who wr

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. – Paul Auster

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