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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

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There is one story and one story only.
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When I’m killed, don’t think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there’s one thing that I know well, I’m damned if I’ll be damned to Hell!
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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
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No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.
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Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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I was thinking, “So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I’ll be able to make people read my books now.
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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
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Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
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There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
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Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
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Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I’d love to be a Fairy’s child.
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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
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He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
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New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
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Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.
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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and – if he is lucky enough – know the love of an honest woman.
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What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.
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Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
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Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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Any honest housewife would sort them out, Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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