"The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition."
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"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."
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"Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot."
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"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"I always entertain great hopes."
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"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
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"If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on."
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"The only way around is through."
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"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"
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"What we live by we die by."
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"Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)"
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"You can't get too much winter in the winter."
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"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
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"Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain."
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"Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?"
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"I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out."
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"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."
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"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
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"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
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