"That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather."
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"We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone."
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"It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love."
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"But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware."
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"Democracy is the best chance for the best people."
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"I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody."
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"Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen."
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"I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over."
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"It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling."
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"I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at."
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"Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been."
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"Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing."
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"Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water."
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"Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment"
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"He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself."
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"Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul."
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"One age is like another for the soul."
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"God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew."
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"Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?"
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"Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain."
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