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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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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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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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Explore more quotes by William C. Bryant

"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."
Nature

"The groves were God's first temples."
God

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."
Pain

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."
Nature

"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness."
Virtue

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
Poetry

"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
Truth

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."
Death

"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
Art

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
Cause
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