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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
Influence
"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
Work
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
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