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Proverbs have also been used strategically by poets.

Sometimes proverbs ( or portions of them or anti-proverbs ) are used for titles, such as " A bird in the bush " by Lord Kennet and " The blind leading the blind " by Lisa Mueller.

Sometimes, proverbs are important parts of poems, such as Paul Muldoon's " Symposium ", which begins " You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.

Every dog has a stitch in time ..."