More From Gustave Flaubert
- "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
- "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
- "Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
More In Poetry
- "I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it’s not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own."― Louise Mensch
- "Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow."― Andrew Motion
- "Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."― Peter Davison