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- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are the music while the music lasts.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
- Nasty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
- Consists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
- Immature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
- Month
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- Nov 07, 2020
April is the cruellest month.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the lover must struggle for words.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my beginning is my end.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
This love is silent.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
- Dodging
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- Nov 07, 2020
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- Nov 07, 2020