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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

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Home is where one starts from.

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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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not fare well, but fare forward

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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