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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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"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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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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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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"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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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
Pleasure
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
Love
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
Fear
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
Thought
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
Friendship
"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."
Aesthetics
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
Law
"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."
Poetry
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