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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"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."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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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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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
Ambition
"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
Life
"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom."
Age
"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
Love
"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."
Finance
"All a poet can do today is warn."
Caution
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
Home
"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
Philosophy
"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter."
War
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
Language
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