"Join the army and see the next world."
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"And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion."
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"A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?"
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"Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!"
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"Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain."
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."
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"I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression."
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"The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident."
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"Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
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"I have been told to reason by the heart, But heart, like head, leads helplessly; I have been told to reason by the pulse, And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace"
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"And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"
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"To begin, at the beginning."
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"It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light."
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"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night."
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"The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it."
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"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
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"Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels."
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"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
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"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
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"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
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