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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
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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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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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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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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
Man
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
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"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
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