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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
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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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"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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"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
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"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
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"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
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"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
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"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
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