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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of uni ...
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even com ...
There are no other questions than these,
Half squashed in mud, emerging out of the moment
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You can't say it that way any more.
Bothered about beauty you have to
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Something
Ought to be written about how this affects
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But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
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But I was trying to tell you about a strange thing
That happened to me, but this is no way to tell about it,
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Still I enjoy
The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine,
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave
Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.
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