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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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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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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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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

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A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

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Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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