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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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