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"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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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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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"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."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."
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"Poetry is a mug's game."
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"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."
Love
"All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected."
Politics
"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."
Birth
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