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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
"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."
"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
"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."
"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
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