"And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist."
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"Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle."
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"In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry."
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"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
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"Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?"
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"I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around."
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"The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully."
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"Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason."
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"Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious."
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"Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind."
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"Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite."
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"The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels."
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"Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there."
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"You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?"
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"What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions."
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"Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music."
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"The union of a want and a sentiment."
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"England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk."
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"It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self."
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"A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one."
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