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Quotes by Poet
"I don't care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish."
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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
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"Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty."
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"Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project."
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"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree."
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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."
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"Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change."
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
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"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."
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"Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers-vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining."
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"Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace."
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"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
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"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
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"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."
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"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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