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"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."

"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."

"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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