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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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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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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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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

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And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

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At the still point, there the dance is.

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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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Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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