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“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”
“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”
“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
“To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecaus...”
“The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live witho...”
“truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness”
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.”
“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”
“stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“Resist much, obey little.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destr...”
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
“Let our scars fall in love.”
“As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
