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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
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