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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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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed."
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"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."
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"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."
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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."
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"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
People
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
Love
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
Trust
"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
Death
"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
People
"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit."
Being
"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."
Life
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