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- Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley
- Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye
- Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery
- But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through… — John Updike
- A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. — Robert A. Heinlein