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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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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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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"God is the place where I do not remember the rest."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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"Space is the stature of God."
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"Politeness is the flower of humanity."
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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
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"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
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