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In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter-bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
  Stephen Crane

 'Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at
  John Selden

 ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

 A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
  Jules Renard

 A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou
  Edward Fitzgerald

 A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.
  Wilfred Owen

 A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
  Robert Frost

 A poem begins with a lump in the throat
  Robert Frost

 A poem begins with a lump in the throat
  Robert Frost

 A poem should not mean, But be
  Archibald MacLeish

 A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb
  W. H. Auden

 A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening
  James Dickey

 A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening
  James Dickey

 A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child
  Henry Louis Mencken


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