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“It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.”

Eye Fall Poet Spring Rose Islands Electricity Mice Competing 4th Of July July Locomotives Niagara Niagara Falls Coney Island

Book:Is 5

Source: Is 5

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”

Giving Writing May Land Poet Flower Concern Rose Owners Yield Motto Simplest Gorgeous Ferns

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.”

Men Firsts Poet Rose Imbeciles

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.”

Made Said Poetry Language Poet Rose Rings Nouns

Book:Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.”

Ideas Poetry Order Principles Cases Poet Rose Formulas Combat Atoms Splits Definite Versus Brutality Obscurity Dissociation

Author:Ezra Pound

“In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.”

Littles Said Women Sea Poet Rose Apples Honey Clay Handful Lilies Dove Serpent Persian

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.”

Thinking Feels Poet Rose Sensibility Donne Tennyson

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis