"Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs."
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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
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"Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced."
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"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work."
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
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"Don't be an agnostic. Be something."
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
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"Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?"
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"To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave."
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"What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all."
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"The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security."
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"O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away."
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"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice."
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"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down."
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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
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"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March."
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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"The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day."
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"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew"
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"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
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