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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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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"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."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ..."
"People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..."
"...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears..."
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