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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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

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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

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The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

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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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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so 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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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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