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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

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The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
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Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave ‘s narrowness, though not its peace.
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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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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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Well, we’ve been lucky devils both And there is no need for a pledge or oath To bind our lovely friendship fast, By firmer stuff Close bound enough.
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We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
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Any honest housewife would sort them out, Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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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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There’s a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.
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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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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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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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The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
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If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
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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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