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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."

"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."

"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
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