"I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice."
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"A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being."
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"A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune."
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"New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere."
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"My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds."
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"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
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"What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth."
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"Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed."
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"I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace."
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"The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere."
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"But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter."
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"As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?"
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"The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place."
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"The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore."
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"The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one."
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"Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died."
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"The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove."
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"I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?"
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"The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all."
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"The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race"
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