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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."


"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."


"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."


"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."


"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."


"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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