“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.