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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

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You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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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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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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I gotta use words to talk to you.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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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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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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Business today consists in persuading crowds.

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At the still point, there the dance is.

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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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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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