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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.
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Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
January 6, 1878
Died:
July 22, 1967
(aged 89)
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