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"Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of."
"It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture."
"What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you."
"Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man."
"I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago."
"I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more."
"When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair."
"Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air."
"Men work together, whether they work together or apart."
"I still say the only education worth anything is self-education."
"You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom."
"... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out."
"I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day."
"The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state."
"If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are."
"We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain."
"The only way out is to go through"
"I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held."
"Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave."
"And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things."