A poem is never finished, only abandoned.... -Paul Valery

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery , Poet
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At times I think and at times I am....
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other....
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly....
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through....
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well....
A poem is never finished, only abandoned....
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone....
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false....
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business....
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds....

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...