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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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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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Day Enough Night Shake
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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