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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."

"Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it."
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"Love makes you do, the best of things.Love makes you do, the worst of things, It's a feeling extreme, that doesn't exist in between."

"Some say the glass is half full and blush, Some say it's half empty and sink, I feel you are in the midst of, reaching out for another awesome drink!"

"A flame that flickered, And a soul that whimpered, A candle that blazed, And a fragrance that raised. The flames were fed the same, But one remained diminished, While the other touched vintage!"

"The mirror it was and life it spelled, The road ahead, and the time past stepped, All gathered in one; one to all paired, My life is so different from all the world's threads.My breaths are mine, my woes are too, If my life were put through you, You sure would unlikely pursue, It should be left for me to gather, I am its sculptor, mine would be the hammer."

"Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!"

"I'll keep looking - till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together."

"There is now a distance, pressing quite persistent, May be only inches apart, but as if an artery is blocked.There now seem some secrets, a word which was earlier so needless.May be they now laugh so less, and even in summers, the air between them feels dense.Who connects? Who neglects?Barely matters when you are no more friends."
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