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"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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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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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core."
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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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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."
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"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."
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"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge."
Anger
"Happiness lies first of all in health."
Happiness
"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."
Man
"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."
Poetry
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
Liberty
"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind."
Intelligence
"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
Wisdom
"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win."
Nature
"The test of civilization is its estimate of women."
Woman
"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
Imagination
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