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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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