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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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

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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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

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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

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not fare well, but fare forward

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

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I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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