The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
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Important Poetry Reality
Music proposes. Sound disposes.
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Music Musician Sound
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.
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Children History Trying
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
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Certain Lovers Poet
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.
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Men Out Poetry Speaks
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
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Age Genius Poetry
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?
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Breathing Miracle Ocean
There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.
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Ends Grief Poetry
Who, except the poets, reads poetry?
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Poet Poetry Read

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