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Grief has limits whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened but we fear all that possibly may happen.

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    Galway Kinnell about Poetry

    That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound and when you understand it it is only ridiculous.

    poetry incomprehensible seems profound understand ridiculous
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      Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

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      My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

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      I write poetry in order to live more fully.

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