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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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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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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
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"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
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"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work


"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
Love


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
People


"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
Order


"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
Ideal


"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
Illness


"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
Television
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