"Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another."
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"About loving, I have little to learn from the young."
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"People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!"
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"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"
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"Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature."
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"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."
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"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
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"It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely."
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"There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death."
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"I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot."
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"Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration."
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"It feels a long way up and down from zero."
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"Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you."
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"People who cannot feel punish those who do."
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"Love is our human miracle."
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