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"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"
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"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
Science
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
Heart
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
Marriage
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
Money
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
Genius
"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
Man
"In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained."
Love
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
Love
"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
Books
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Art
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