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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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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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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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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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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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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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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

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

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