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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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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

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

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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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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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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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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In the end is my beginning.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

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