“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"Forever-- is composed of nows."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
"The best way out is always through."
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
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