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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

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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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You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

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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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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.

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Writing a poem is discovering.

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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

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

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

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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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