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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
Nature
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
People
"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
God
"Smiles are the language of love."
Love
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
Civilization
"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."
Thought
"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
Language
"No one but a fool is always right."
Fool
"In oratory the will must predominate."
Oratory
"Children always turn to the light."
Children
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