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"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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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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"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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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
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"I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty."
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"Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonightSparkling for moon's spiced silver biteUpon skin of darkness, loving night moreStorm begins unlocking cold wind's door."
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"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
Poetry
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
Poetry
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
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"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
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"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
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"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."
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"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
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"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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