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"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
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"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."

"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."

"The word in your mouth is anarchy."

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."

"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."

"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."

"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."

"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere."

"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."

"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
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