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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2nd, 1879

Died: August 2nd, 1955

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