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"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
Resilience
"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
Poetry
"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
Poetry
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
Resilience
"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
Sense
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
Perception
"And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."
Content
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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Personal Development
"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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Personal Development
"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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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."
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"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."
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"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."
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"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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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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