"And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist."
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"Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?"
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"The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing."
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"I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion."
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"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life"
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"Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language."
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"After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars"
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"Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors."
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"Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect."
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"Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'"
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"POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog."
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"I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion."
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"What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends."
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"Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye."
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"It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley."
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"Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars."
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"Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?"
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"The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer."
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"The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time"
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"There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music."
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