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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

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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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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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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.

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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

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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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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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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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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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