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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

The words “question” and “quest” are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

The words “question” and “quest” are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

You can’t pray a lie.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow.

For me, a poet is someone who is “in contact.” Someone through whom a current is passing.

For me, a poet is someone who is “in contact.” Someone through whom a current is passing.

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry is the purest of the language arts. It’s the tightest cage, and if you can get to sing in that cage it’s really really wonderful.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.