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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround

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