"A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look"
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"He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through"
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"I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities."
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"One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right."
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"So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be."
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"But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone."
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"Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood."
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"When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be."
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"The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
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"Life is tons of discipline."
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"Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning."
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"You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike."
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"There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader."
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"For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew."
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"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
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"I write to find out what I didn't know I knew."
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"If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about."
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"The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar."
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"Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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"More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work."
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