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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

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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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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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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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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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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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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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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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In the end is my beginning.

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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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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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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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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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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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