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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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"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
Work
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
Age
"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
Integrity
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
Influence
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Blame
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
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