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After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

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Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing hecould be told.It was a lan...more

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We live in an old chaos of the sun.

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I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. W...more

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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Poetry is the scholar's art.

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There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.

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A poem is a meteor.

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I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.