- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
- Nov 07, 2020
After every war someone has to tidy up.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020