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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
June 27, 1884
Died:
October 16, 1962
(aged 78)
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