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Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

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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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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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Past art is subject to change.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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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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So the lover must struggle for words.

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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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