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"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."
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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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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."
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"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."
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"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."
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"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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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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"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."
Possibility
"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."
Heroism
"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."
Sleep
"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."
Poetry
"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."
Time
"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."
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"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."
Being
"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."
Influence
"Atlantis will rise again."
Will
"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer."
Identity
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