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• Poetry, like chastity, can be carried too far. -- Mark Twai
• Women are like programs. A smart man keeps backups!
• Angling is somewhat like poetry,--men are to be born so.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• Like stones of worth, they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet lii...
• My nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet cxi...
• Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
  -- Don Marquis (1878-1937)...
• Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad
  and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. -- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli...
• Uhland's poetry is like the famous war horse, Bayard
  it possesses all possible virtues and only one fault: it is dead. -- Heinrich Heine...
• There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either. -- Robert Grave