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Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

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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 twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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