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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 get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."
"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."
"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."
"A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds."
"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
"In the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone's deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone's smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against."
"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."
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"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."
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