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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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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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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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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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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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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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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 think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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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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These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih shantih
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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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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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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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So the lover must struggle for words.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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