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There will be time to murder and create.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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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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You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

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

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Home is where one starts from.

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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

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I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

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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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Talent imitates, genius steals.

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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

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The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

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