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Poetry Quotes
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say, 'Yes,' I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you.'
Then he asked the question that you are all itching to ask me: 'How can you tell good poetry from bad?' I answered, 'How does one tell good fish from bad? Surely by the smell? Use your nose.'
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
A poem is never a put-up job so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
When power leads men towards 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.
God has made me his poem.
Poetry is the stuff in books that doesn't quite reach the margins.
Violence Quote
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Funny Quote
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
Marriage Quote
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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