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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

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Past art is subject to change.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

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A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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