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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . ."
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"But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."
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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."
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"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."
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"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock."
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"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."
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"Poetry lies its way to the truth."
Poetry
"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
Fun
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
Love
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
Art
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
Classroom
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
Adolescence
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."
Character
"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
Opinion
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
Time
"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
American
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