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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

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To make one, there must be two.

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We must love one another or die

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

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Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

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Poetry makes nothing happen.

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In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise

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I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

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When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

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The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are tau...more

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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.