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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
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There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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