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Quotes by Poet
"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
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"Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design-individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors."
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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain."
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"Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water."
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."
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"I don't care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish."
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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."
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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
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"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
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"Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey."
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"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."
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"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."
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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
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"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
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"I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?"
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"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
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"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!"
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"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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