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Quotes by Poet
"Experience is more important than knowledge."
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"In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
Life,
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"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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"A boy said,"Everybody is my friend.Beloved said,"No, not everybody can be your friend. Boy said, "Each one of them is gifted to teach me something new in my life. Beloved said, "I still don't agree. Boy again smilingly said, "Don't divide human, ...divide your soul, you will have everybody as friend. In short, Friends are your own soul divided from you, who will guide you when you will move away from your path."
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"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."
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"Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers-vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining."
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time."
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"Inside of every good person there is also something very wild."
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"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
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"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self."
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"You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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