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Poetry Quotes

"Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?"

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

"Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust Cloud-dust Storm-dust And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale"

"Sullen girl, don't know if I had style but I had grace"

"But even if the moon promises me her heart"

"Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."

"The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse"

"And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough and life slips by like a field mouse."

"True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed"

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror But you are eternity and you are the mirror"

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

"Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes"

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws"

"Wine is bottled poetry"

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