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"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate."
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"In the sky, far above - Where my words - Written in the Clouds; I've borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile."
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