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Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language woul

Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

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My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. – Thom Gunn

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AIDS
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Thom Gunn
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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry
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Thom Gunn
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The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament—Integrity of Heart. – Charles Snart, “Dedication, to Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton,” 1807 January 1st, Newar

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Poetry

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. – James Broughton

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Poetry

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Poetry

Poetic talent doesnt operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Poetry

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Blushing is the color of virtue. – Diogenes

Category:
Humility

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. – Proverb

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Laughter

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. – Sinclair Lewis

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America

We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue – D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

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Censorship