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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

"Don't be imprisoned by others perception of reality."

"... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves..."

"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."

"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."

"How can the truth make anything worse?"

"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."
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"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."


"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"


"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."


"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter."


"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head."
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