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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"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."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"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."

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
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