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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

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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, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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