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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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The end is where we start from.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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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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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

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

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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