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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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

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He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

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In life there is not time to grieve long.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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