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Quotes by Poet
"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
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"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."
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"Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had."
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"So much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. And that is what you, insofar as you are your own doctor, must now do, more thananything else."
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"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique."
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"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
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"You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."
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"Whatever you have been praying and yearning for, you will soon be proof of it!"
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"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
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"Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable."
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"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
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"Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud."
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"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."
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"I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was a different man on Sunday, used to draw out the notes at the ends of verses so he could listen to himself, and in fact it sounded pretty."
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"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
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"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing."
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"Control is violence, cooperation is friendship."
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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."
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"The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life."
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"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."
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"That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance."
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