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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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Home is where one starts from.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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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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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

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To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

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

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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