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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 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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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"The luck will alter and the star will rise."
Luck
"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."
Man
"Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain."
Beauty
"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."
Poetry
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
Adventure
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
Truth
"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."
Life
"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."
Poetry
"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"
Home
"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
People
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