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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

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