Category: poet
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“A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.”
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”
“Poetry is life distilled.”
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
“I can conceive of no better service than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy.”
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
In Memory: “I write a few pages and then I hide them. Then I write a few more and hide those, too. That is my general method.”
