"Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated."
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"Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall."
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"Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free."
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"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
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"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation"
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"Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose."
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
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"When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit."
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"Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away"
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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
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"Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form."
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"To be social is to be forgiving."
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"Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world."
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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
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"I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there."
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
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"Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles."
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