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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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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
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"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
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"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."
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"The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they balance the ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes, they do not seek beauty, they are sought, forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. They prepare for death, yet they are not the finish, but rather the outset, they bring none of his or her terminus or to be content & full, whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of the stars, to learn one of the meanings, to launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings & never be quiet again."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
Criticism
"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
Nature
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Dream
"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
People
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
Poetry
"In dreams begins responsibility."
Dream
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Dream
"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."
Joy
"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."
Courage
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
Friendship
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