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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
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