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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.


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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.



The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.



It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.



The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.



The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.



As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.



It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.



There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.



My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.



Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.





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I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

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It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.



Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.

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We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.



In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.

In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.




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