Randall Jarrell :
If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.
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Poetry and Poets
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Love
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Beauty
Gift it
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