"I am not a teacher. I am an awakener."
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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
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"There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people."
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"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."
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"Writing a poem is discovering."
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"Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees."
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"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second."
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"Nothing gold can stay."
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"Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better."
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"Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight."
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"It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage."
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"As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."
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"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."
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"Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me."
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"Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom."
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down."
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"Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does."
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"But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire."
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"All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas."
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"I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none."
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