"Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak."
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"When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them."
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"Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do."
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"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?"
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"Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother."
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"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."
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"A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork."
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"loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round"
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"Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow."
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"Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct."
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
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"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."
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"The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up."
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"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."
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"What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?"
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"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."
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"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
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"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
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"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
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"You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference."
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