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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."

"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."

"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."

"May this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to."

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

"A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone."
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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
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