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

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Only through time time is conquered

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

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

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If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

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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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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

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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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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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