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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

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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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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

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The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

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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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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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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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