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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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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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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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Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
Nature

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
Money

"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
Friendship

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
Time

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
Success

"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
Love
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