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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. - James Dick

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – James Dickey

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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. – Toi Derricotte

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. – E. M. Forster

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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It seemed almost impossible for him to rouse himself out of the delicious depths of his first sleep. – Rev. G. Despard, M.A., Trinity Church, Kilburn, “Peace in the Heart,” in The Sun

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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius

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