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- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), Country Town Sayings, 1911
- The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.
- Steven Wright (1955 - ), stand-up
- 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 (1749 - 1832)
- 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
- Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
- I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
- Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
- Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
- John Green, VlogBrothers, A Poem for Spring, 03-26-13
- 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 (1803 - 1882)
- 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 (1904 - 1990)
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