Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. -
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. -
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. -
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It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
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- The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
- But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
- The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
- That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.