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War among men defiles this world.

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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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

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In my beginning is my end.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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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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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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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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Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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