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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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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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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."
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"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
Church
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
Expression
"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
Expression
"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
Experience
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
Expression
"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
Expression
"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
Poetry
"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."
Love
"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
Poetry
"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."
Art
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