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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"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."

"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."

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
Explore more quotes by Richard M. Nixon

"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

"Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support."

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."

"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."

"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."

"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."

"If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?"

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
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