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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

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When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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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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I can connect Nothing with nothing

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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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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