"The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word."
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"I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep."
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"And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash."
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"Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay."
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"Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it."
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"Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations."
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"People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened."
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"The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on."
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"The people know what the land knows."
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"The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away."
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"The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning."
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"I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days."
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"Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is."
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"What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need.""
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"I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural."
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"Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths."
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"Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering."
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"Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly."
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