"I have said no To everything, in order to get at myself. I have wiped away moonlight like mud."
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"I was the world in which I walked."
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"The imperfect is our paradise."
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"Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation."
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"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates."
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"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."
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"A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist."
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"Poetry is an abstraction bloodied."
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"A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one."
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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
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"Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things."
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"You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing."
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"The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book."
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"Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist."
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"It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window."
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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
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"The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos."
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"I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss."
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"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
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"The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go."
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