"Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed."
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"Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters."
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"It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door."
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
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"The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE."
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"Poetry to me is prayer."
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"The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem."
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"Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes."
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"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."
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"Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible."
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"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."
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"The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were."
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"It was at that age that poetry came in search of me."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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"Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take."
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"Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable."
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