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Every single soul is a poem

Soul Poem
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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Poem Novel Ending Open door
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Poetess Died Young Cancer
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A poem is a naked person, some people say I am a poet.

Poet Person Say Some
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Poem Dignity Learn Race
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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

About Church First First Time
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Flesh Great Poem Shall
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

About Dictionary Everything Poem
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Act Chance Disaster Discovery
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Dark Meant Part Poem
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Civilization Earth Environment Frost
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Child Earth Knows Like
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Begins Delight Ends Poem
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Ears Eyes Hear Our
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Different Each Others Part
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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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.

Applied Bearing Dress Found
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The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Only Poem
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Crucial Enough Even Ever
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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