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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

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

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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

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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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If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

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The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

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