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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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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."
"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."
"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
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"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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