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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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I have miles to go before I sleep.

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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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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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To be social is to be forgiving.

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Ants are a curious race

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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

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