"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

John Keats, English Poet

Poetry, Potential, Failure, Time, Neglect

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

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Poetry, Love, Winter, Emotion

"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."

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Poetry, Loneliness, Universe, Emotion

"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

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Poetry, Word, Feeling, Expression

"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Poetry, Stars, Art, Importance

"A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account."

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Poetry, Values, Heart, Art

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry, Body, Fire

"But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy waysI cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet..Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."

John Keats, English Poet

Poetry, Nature, Observation, Darkness

"May this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to."

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Poetry, Home, Comfort, Memory

"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors. The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Generosity, Candor, Creativity

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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

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"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."

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"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."