This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.
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The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
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I don’t really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
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When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You’ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.
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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate.
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For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to go away as soon as their money was spent. She said that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.
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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
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For words of rapture groping, they”Never such love,” swore “ever before was!”
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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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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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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Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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