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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up."
"I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself."
"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
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"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without."
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."
"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
"I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."
"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
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