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"Why should poetry have to make sense?"
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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 poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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"Why should poetry have to make sense?"
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"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
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"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."
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"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
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"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
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"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery."
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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
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"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man."
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