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"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"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."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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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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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
Age
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
Money
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
Progress
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
Work
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
Creativity
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
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