Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.
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As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
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Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
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