After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.
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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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Poetry is the scholar's art.
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There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.
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A poem is a meteor.
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I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.
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The Poem That Took The Place Of A MountainThere it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when t...
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One must read poetry with one's nerves.
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Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
