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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

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Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.

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Writing a poem is discovering.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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If one by one we counted people out

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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

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

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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

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