A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
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Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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