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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
Language
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
Creativity
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry
"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
Being
"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
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