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/ page 1016 of 1205 /I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
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I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
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Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
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Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
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We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
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A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
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I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
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