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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...
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Create and stir other people to create.
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Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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The only way out is to go through.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.