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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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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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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
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It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
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From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.
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We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
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A change of style is a change of meaning.
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