"On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones."
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"Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose."
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"Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer."
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"My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance."
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"Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion."
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"I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem."
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"All recurring joy is pain refined."
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"Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented."
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"Everything mortal has moments immortal"
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