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5714 Poet Quotes

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Blade Bleed Hand Knife
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Bondage Emancipation Freedom Soil
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Dust God Greater Idol
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Come Great Humility Nearest
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Burden Laugh Myself Self
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We live in the world when we love it.
Live Love World
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Door Errors Out Shut
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Find Love Read Reading
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Anyone Anything Because Dealing
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Being Complexities Human Means
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What writing does is to reveal.
Does Reveal Writing
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

American Different Dream Lives
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
About Age Every Feared
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Heard Many Poem Thought
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

End Geared Only Play
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Day Drafts Go Guilt
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Carry Everywhere First Me
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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

About According Color Day
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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
Play Short Stories Write
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

About Am Arts Federal
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Artistic Believe Creativity Going
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Beaten Children Gets Insight
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Find Grew Joy Me
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Discover Enjoy Lots Love
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Alive Back Became Childhood
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Angel Being Something Touched
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