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Quotes by Poet
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire."
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"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."
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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
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"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."
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"A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way."
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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
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"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
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"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
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"It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible."
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"The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
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"Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things."
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"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
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"The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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