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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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We live in an old chaos of the sun.

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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...more

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One must read poetry with one's nerves.