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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
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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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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
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"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
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"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
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"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
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"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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