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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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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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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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