"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice."
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"In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular."
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."
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"She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew."
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
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"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
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"One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain."
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"I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing."
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"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."
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"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body."
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"Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash."
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"The poet makes silk dresses out of worms."
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"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
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"Language is fossil Poetry."
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"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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