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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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