"I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest."
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"Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.""
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"Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes"
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"Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be."
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"I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load."
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"The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks."
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"When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right."
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"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
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"In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all."
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"Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is."
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"I go to school the youth to learn the future."
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"Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist."
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"Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football."
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"I never feel more at home than at a ballgame."
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"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."
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"The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length"
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"I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been."
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"I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better."
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"For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired."
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