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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
- Later
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
- Rejection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
- Clouds
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
- Guidance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020