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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Gr

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. – 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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: dont change diapers in midstream. – Don Marquis

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Poetry! poetry! the emptiest of all words, or the most significant,—the most frivolous of all things, or the most important. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. – David Hunt

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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch

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