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"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."
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"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."
"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
"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."
"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day."
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
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