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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
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"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."
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"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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"A friend is a favourable family."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
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"A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
Art
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
Friendship
"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
Poetry
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
Sex
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
Poetry
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
"When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to."
Being
"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."
Writing
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