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Quotes by Poet
"It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it."
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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
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"It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both."
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
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"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant."
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"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."
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"Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess."
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"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."
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"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
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"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."
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"The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it."
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"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
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"He looked into her eyes and said "When everything falls apart, and the day my soul refuses to move any further, I'll come back home. A home that fills me with courage and love. My home neither has doors and nor windows, All it have is walls. The walls that beat every second. And it has a pair of eyes too. Through which I can see this world more beautifully than I ever did"."
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"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering."
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"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them."
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
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"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
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"You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."
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"Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them."
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"What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?"
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"People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now."
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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
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"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
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"History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings."
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"How joyful to be together, aloneas when we first were joinedin our little house by the riverlong ago, except that now we knoweach other, as we did not then;and now instead of two stories fumblingto meet, we belong to one storythat the two, joining, made. And nowwe touch each other with the tendernessof mortals, who know themselves."
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"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
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