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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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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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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

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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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