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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
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"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."
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"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
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"I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty."
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"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."
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"When one verse in life ends in ignominy, we can use the glimmering marvel of nature's splendor and frayed edges culled from the black linen of past failures to write uncanny poems that give voice to the fissures in our hollow, reflective poetry that echoes our supple inner world of cherished dreams colliding with the serrated edges of savage realism."
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"The purpose firm is equal to the deed."
Purpose
"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."
Death
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
Friendship
"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
God
"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire."
Death
"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."
Satire
"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."
Laughter
"By all means use some time to be alone."
Time
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
Learning
"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."
Friendship
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