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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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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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I've been born, and once is enough.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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