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[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the… — Andre Maurois
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the… — Walt Whitman
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All… — Gabor Mate
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Unknown Author
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June — Jean-Paul Sartre
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. — Jean Burden
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very… — Walt Whitman
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu. — William Stafford
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the… — Ted Kooser
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. — Carolyn Kizer
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should… — Theodore Roethke
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this… — Denis Johnson
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. — Minnie Bruce Pratt
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The… — Robert Frost
...a good poem contains both meaning and music — Eve Merriam

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