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Quotes by Poet
"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."
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"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them."
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"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
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"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."
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"And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
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"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
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"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
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"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."
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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
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"He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part."
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"People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot."
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"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."
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"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
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"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"Life is delicious. Waste not one bite!"
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"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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