“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.”– W. S. Merwin Related Quotes “I don’t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don’t come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.”– Judy Collins “All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”– Gustave Flaubert “The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.”– Robert Morgan