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"A poet is not an apostle, he drives out devils only by the power of the devil."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
Desire
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Truth
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
Truth
"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."
Curiosity
"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
Life
"The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones."
Passion
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
Freedom
"Hope is a passion for the possible."
Hope
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
Music
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