"The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."
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"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all."
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"I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself."
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"There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them."
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"We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough."
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"Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts."
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"The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite."
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"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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"The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time."
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"An expert is a damn fool a long way from home."
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"And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for."
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"A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people."
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"Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full."
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"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
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"There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children."
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"Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone."
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"My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself."
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"Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water."
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