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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. 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. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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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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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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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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