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

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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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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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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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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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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