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"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
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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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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed."
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"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."
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"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."
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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."
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"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
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"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
Education
"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
Now
"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."
Fear
"They that possess the prince possess the laws."
Law
"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
Age
"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Love
"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"
Music
"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."
Love
"Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."
Nature
"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."
Death
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