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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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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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