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The darkness declares the glory of light.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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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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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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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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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

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With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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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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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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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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