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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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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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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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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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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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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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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

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