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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we…
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the…
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.…
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot…
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Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once…
— Galileo Galilei
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.…
— A. R. Ammons
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Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I feel insane, but I must be insane to have put up with what I did. So now let's become sane and…
— Christopher John Ford
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When I am gone, the memories I once experienced will soon disappear. The sorrows of the people that once knew me will…
— Ty S Onda
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