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"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"Successful crimes alone are justified."
Success

"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
Being

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
Age

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius

"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

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Love

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."
Events

"They that possess the prince possess the laws."
Law

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"
Fate
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