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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
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"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
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"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."
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"The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they balance the ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes, they do not seek beauty, they are sought, forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. They prepare for death, yet they are not the finish, but rather the outset, they bring none of his or her terminus or to be content & full, whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of the stars, to learn one of the meanings, to launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings & never be quiet again."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
God
"In married life three is company and two none."
Life
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Philosophy
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
Philosophy
"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
God
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
Philosophy
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
Philosophy
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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