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"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dying
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction
"But time has set its maggot on their track."
Time
"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Love
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
Art
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
Man
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
Development
"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
Politics
"These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't."
Love
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
Fire
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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Personal Development
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development
"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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Personal Development
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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Personal Development
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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Personal Development
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