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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

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Money is a kind of poetry.

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2nd, 1879

Died: August 2nd, 1955

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