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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
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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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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Poetry
"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
Family
"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
Food
"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
Religion
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
Music
"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."
Wealth
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
Poetry
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
Money
"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
Death
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
War
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