- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is a kind of poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imagination is man's power over nature.
- Comparison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
- Lake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Infection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020