"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."

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"For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!"

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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

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"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."

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"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."

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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

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"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

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