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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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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
Literature
"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."
Change
"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
Friendship
"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."
Poetry
"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
Life
"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
Life
"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
Life
"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
Language
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
History
"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
Language
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