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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

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Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her t...more

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He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the...more

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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glo...more

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each...more

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely ...more

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For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no...more

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more