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"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
"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."
"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
"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."
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