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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

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The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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