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Quotes by Poet
"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."
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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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"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored."
18
"How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
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"Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."
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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
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"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
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"Compassion is a verb."
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"The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise."
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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
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"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."
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"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
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"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work,
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"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
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"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
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"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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