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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.

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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

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I play better tennis because the court is there.

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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

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