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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
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