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Home is where one starts from.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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not fare well, but fare forward

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

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

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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Past art is subject to change.

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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so 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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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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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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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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