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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

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Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

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

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Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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