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"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." »Archibald MacLeish
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"This poem will never reach its destination." »Voltaire
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"A poem is no place for an idea." »Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." »Paul Valery
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"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." »Mata Hari
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." »Robert Frost
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"The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry." »L. Schefer
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"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." »C. S. Lewis, A preface to "Paradise Lost"
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"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one." »Michel de Montaigne
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"History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"A Haiku is just like a normal American poem except that it doesn't rhyme and it's totally stupid." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?" »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." »Booker T. Washington
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"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest." »Wallace Stevens
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"We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one." »Michel de Montaigne
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem." »Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
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"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?" »B. F. Skinner
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"I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew." »Janet Minor
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"Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before." »Shel Silverstein
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"The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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