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"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
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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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"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
Imagination
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
Faith
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
Disgrace
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"Coffee in England is just toasted milk."
Coffee
"The dark is light enough."
Light
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
Comedy
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
Poetry
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
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