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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"The point of vision and desire are the same."
Vision
"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."
Poetry
"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
Reality
"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
Desire
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
Poor
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
Imagination
"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
Literature
"The fire burns as the novel taught it how."
Fire
"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."
World
"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."
Existence
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