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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."
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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
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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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"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."
Emotional

"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."
Poetry

"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."
Truth

"The American public does not know poets exist."
Economy

"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Imagination

"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
People

"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."
Poetry

"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."
Violence

"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
Economy

"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."
Life
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