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

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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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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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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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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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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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The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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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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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

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There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

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