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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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An idea is a feat of association.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?

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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

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What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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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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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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