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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

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

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

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

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When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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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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