“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”– Gustave Flaubert Related Quotes “As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.”– Goldwin Smith “I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.”– Philip Levine “Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”– Seamus Heaney