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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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"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."
Heart
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
Soul
"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
Men
"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
Poetry
"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."
Men
"The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."
Heart
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order."
Darkness
"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."
Hurt
"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
Life
"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."
Evil
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