"The moment of change is the only poem."
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"And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval."
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"I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in."
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"Poetry fettered fetters the human race."
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"The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed."
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"We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt."
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"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize"
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"Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God"
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"The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions."
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"Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless."
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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
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"The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth..."
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"poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge"
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"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
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"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
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"Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free."
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"Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend."
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"There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."
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"The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts."
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"Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds."
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