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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Away How Made Phantom
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry Mirror Beautiful Distorted
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry Best Happiest Moment
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Power Leads Arrogance Poetry
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Old Poet Truth Daughter
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Live Poetry Far Anybody
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

What Poetry Real Dreaming
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends Go Others People
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Atmosphere City Life Marvelous
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Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.

Poetry Product Living Got
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Beings Create Exist Know
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To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Opinion Sell Yourself Exist
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Almost Draw Even Extinguish
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Could Define More Poetry
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Women Make Poets Children
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She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Love You Metaphors Poet
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

One-day Poet Depend Water
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For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Essential Poet Have Toast
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

May Poetry God Name
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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In poetry, only emotion endures.

Poetry Emotion Endures
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Poetry Art Breath Life
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Beauty Imagination Logic Mathematics
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Young Poet Bird Wing
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Poet Unhealthier Regular Temptations
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Atoms Concerned Creating Describing
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I know who the great poets are.

Great Know Poets Who
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Heals Inflicted Poetry Reason
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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Beautiful Divine Heart Music
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Between Born Forests Grew
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Before Born Came Prose
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematician Painter Poet Permanent
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

After Dad Maria Me
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Distilled Language Most Poetry
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

About Because Elements Language
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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