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Quotes by Poet
"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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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
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"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."
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"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."
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"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
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"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
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"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."
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"The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone."
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"
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"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."
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"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust."
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"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
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"You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile."
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"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
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"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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