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"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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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."
"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."
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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