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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
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"You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable."
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"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see."
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"Reach for the stars."
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"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
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"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
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"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
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"I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself."
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"We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs."
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"Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe."
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"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
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"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
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"Only silence perfects silence."
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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."
Experience


"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."
Isolation


"I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."
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"In nature there are few sharp lines."
Nature


"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
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"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."
Poetry
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