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"The cliche is dead poetry."
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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."
"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"
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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."
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
"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."
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
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