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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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

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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

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

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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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The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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Don't be agnostic - be something.

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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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One age is like another for the soul.

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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

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In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

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