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"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
"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."
"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."
"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"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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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."
"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
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