Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

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Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

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