"Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language."
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"Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words."
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"I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all."
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"Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality."
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"There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children."
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"Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions."
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"Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it."
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"Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death."
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"When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done."
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"Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters."
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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. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work."
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"I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts."
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"I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America."
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"Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak."
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"God, let me remember all good losers."
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"Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words."
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"His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk."
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"Come on, you Do you want to live forever?"
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"Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables."
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"Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder."
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