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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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What destruction have I been blessed by?

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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

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Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

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I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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In nature there are few sharp lines

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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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Only silence perfects silence.

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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

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