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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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