A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving. ― Raymond Carver

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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Cus talked with such enthusiasm because enthusiasm is contagious and people will do things when they get enthused. ― Mike Tyson

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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ― John Green

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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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