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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…
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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
— Honore de Balzac
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into…
— Nicolas Cage
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and…
— Washington Irving
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to…
— Marianne Williamson
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
— Lucretius
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Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.
— Paul Gallico
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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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