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“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
“And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs...”
“Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension o...”
“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”
“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,And yet thou are not there;I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,And press the common air.”
“I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where...”
“Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes”
“The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragons headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought hed be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead.”
“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...... if you demand on one hand,the raw material of poetry inall its rawness andthat which is on the other handgenuine, then you are interested in poe...”
“It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.”
“The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach:The Ogre cannot master speech.About a subjugated plain,Among it's desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks w...”
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my lifes esteems; Even the dearest that I love...”
“Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.”
“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
“Open wide the mind's cage-door,She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.”
“As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.”
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single ef...”
“. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing”
“A poet could kill the dead.”
