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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
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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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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
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"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
Poetry
"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."
Age
"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."
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"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."
Poetry
"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
Exploration
"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."
Family
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