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"Only silence perfects silence."
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"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."
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"If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster."
"Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take."
"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."
"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
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