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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
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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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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
Positive
"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."
Thought
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
Consciousness
"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
Perseverance
"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
Attitude
"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
Family
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Life
"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
Poetry
"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
Poetry
"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."
Memory
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