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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

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Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
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Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
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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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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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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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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
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I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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So when I’m killed, don’t wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don’t wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You’ll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you’ve read.
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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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What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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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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I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate.
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