"And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you."
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"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
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"Come on up, boys -I'm dead."
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"My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name."
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"I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream."
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"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."
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"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
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"Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over."
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"My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream."
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"The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults."
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"I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question."
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
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"Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion."
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"Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words."
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"Do not go gentle into that good night."
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"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
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"To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black."
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"I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave."
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"Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry."
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"I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept."
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