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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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I play better tennis because the court is there.

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Life is tons of discipline.

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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

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