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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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...the still point in a turning world.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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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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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

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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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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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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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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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Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

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Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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