"The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate."
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"Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs."
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"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."
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"Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof."
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"Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul."
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"At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings."
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"It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight."
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"The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully."
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"Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal."
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"I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office."
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"It is the belief and not the god that counts."
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"I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again."
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"The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination."
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"The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake."
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"The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair."
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"The point of vision and desire are the same."
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"There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place."
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"We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold."
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"If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words."
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"It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun."
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