"O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst."
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"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
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"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."
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"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
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"Hope is not found in a way out but a way through."
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"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves."
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
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"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
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"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."
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"What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite."
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"Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law."
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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
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"I have miles to go before I sleep."
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"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."
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"Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world."
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"In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated."
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"Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."
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