"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors. The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."

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"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors. The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."

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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."

John Keats, English Poet

Poetry, Potential, Failure, Time, Neglect

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

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Love, Winter, Emotion

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

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Loneliness, Universe, Emotion

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

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Word, Feeling, Expression

"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."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Poetry, Stars, Art, Importance

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Poetry, Body, Fire

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

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Home, Comfort, Memory

"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Divinity, Art, State

"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Creativity, Imagination, Emotion

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

William Shenstone, English Poet

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"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."

Literature

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

Nature

"I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself."

Self

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

Spiritual

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Man

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

Identity

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

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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."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"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."

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

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"Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!"

"We were together. I forget the rest."

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

"I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself."

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."