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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being

"My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets."
Favorite

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
Poetry

"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
Love

"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
Writing

"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
Emotional

"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."
Reading

"Libraries are where it all begins."
Literature

"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."
Being

"When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings."
Being
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