"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Poetry, Expression, Identity, Reflection

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"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry, Body, Fire

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Divinity, Art, State

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

William Shenstone, English Poet

Poetry,

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Poetry,

"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Poetry, Twilight, Loneliness, Nature, Beauty

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

Poetry, Awareness, World

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Poetry, Sense

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poetry, Age, People, Perceptions

"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poetry, Fiction, Past

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate."

John Denham, British Politician

Poetry, Language, Spirit, Will

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"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."

Literature

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

Nature

"I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself."

Self

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

Spiritual

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Man

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

Identity

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

"The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under."

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

"Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate."

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"Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!"

"We were together. I forget the rest."

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

"I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself."

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."