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"When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Wisdom
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Money
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Work
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Friendship
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Truth
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
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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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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."
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"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."
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"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."
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"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."
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"On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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