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“A poet […] may talk nonsense, but it will probably be interesting nonsense.”

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“Seek what gladdens the soul, walk with those who brighten the spirit, and let love that endures light your days.”

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“My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.”

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Book:Song of Myself

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“Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.”

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“Whatever else it may or may not be, I want every poem I write to be a hymn in praise of the English language.”

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“Life is fleeting and full of sorrow and no words can prevent the brave and the beautiful from dying or annihilate a grief. What poetry can do is transform the real world into an imaginary one which is godlike in its permanence and beauty, providing a picture of life which is worthy of imitation as far as it is possible.”

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“My name on the title-page seems a pseudonym for someone else, someone talented but near the border of sanity...”

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“Fundamental and flagrant contradictions rarely occur in second-rate writers; in the work of the great authors, they lead into the very center of their work.”

Literature Multitudes Ars Poetica Self Contradiction

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“Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain.”

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Book:Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

Source: Leaves of Grass and Other Writings

“Listen! I will be honest with you, I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes”

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