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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace."
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"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."
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"Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism."
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"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
Ideas

"Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal."
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"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
Life

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
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"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
Age

"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."
Science

"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
Religion

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
Poetry
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