A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
ROBERT GRAVESThough philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
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If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
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You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
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New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
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But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost’s poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!
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What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate.
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There is one story and one story only.
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The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
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Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
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