"To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”"
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"The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back."
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"A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes."
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"Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child."
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"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard."
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"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
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"The past is a bucket of ashes"
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"Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night."
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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"Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension."
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"Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration."
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"Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming."
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"There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it."
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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."
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"The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow..."
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"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
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"Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
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"There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds."
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