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"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
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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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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
Nature
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
Wisdom
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
Being
"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
Power
"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."
God
"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."
Freedom
"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
Poetry
"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
Word
"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
Reason
"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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