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“Uncontradicting solitudeSupports me on its giant palm;And like a sea-anemoneOr simple snail, there cautiouslyUnfolds, emerges, what I am.”
“Il pleure dans mon coeurComme il pleut sur la ville.Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.”
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream.”
“There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity”
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the l...”
“By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, ...”
“ , , , --' ' , ."Desires"Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown oldand they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,with roses at the head and j...”
“I amyet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in loves frenzied stifled thr...”
“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”
“Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.”
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is c...”
“The greater the pain, the greater the fun.”
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
“A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought --But no, a butterfly.”
“I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife”
“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.”
“I found the poems in the fields,And only wrote them down.”
“And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.”
“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is th...”
“Even this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light.”
