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"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
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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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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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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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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
People
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
Money
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Writing
"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."
Woman
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
Integrity
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
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