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"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"
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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."
"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other."
"The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."
"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
"The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?"
"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die."
"But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep."
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