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"The cliche is dead poetry."
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"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
"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."
"I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty."
"Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonightSparkling for moon's spiced silver biteUpon skin of darkness, loving night moreStorm begins unlocking cold wind's door."
"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."
"The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought's speed in thunder's glory,lightening my being with dream's story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of fame."
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
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