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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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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

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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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The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

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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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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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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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