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[edit] Quotes
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse |
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—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its two parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. |
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—Matsuo Bashō
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The business of poetry is to harmonise the sadness of the universe |
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—A. E. Housman
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. |
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—W. H. Auden
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. |
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—Robert Frost
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. |
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—Walt Whitman
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