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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

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My mind may be American but my heart is British.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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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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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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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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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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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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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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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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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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