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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

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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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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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April is the cruellest month.

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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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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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), 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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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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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

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