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5714 Poet Quotes

I am a victim of introspection.
Am I Am Introspection Victim
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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Alone Am Continually Creative
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Active Being Choice Constantly
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Currents Despairing Electric Floods
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I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Babies Beef Books Want
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When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

Beach Caught Coming Creep
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Lazy Bored Familiar Craves
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Best Means Music Time
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Music Smell Anywhere Invisible
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Afternoon Places Shy Sunny
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

World Unique Sense Class
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Death Distant Picnic Sound
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art Bread Breaking Chief
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poet Love Person Before
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Walk Factory Assembly Feel
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Always Bed Eats Evil
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Race Class Money Distinctions
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Dead Guts Living Man
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Actions Being Class Games
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Considering Difficult Even Faith
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Emotion Happy Romance Passionate
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Mind Center Known Find
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Easy Holding Feels Commit
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Company Drawing Feel Full
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Point Terminal Sins Tend
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Dreams Lack Learn You
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Earth Help Here Know
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Amount Bed Believed Best
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Book Read Real One
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Medicine State Health About
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Taste Irritating Direct Friends
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Love Meet Sing Mountain
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Evil Good Cannot Imagine
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Ecstasy Enough Find Joy
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Breaking Heart I Can Live
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Behavior Believes Does Feels
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Always Ecstatic Experience Ready
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Chance Earned Expensive Fortune
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Feathers Hope Never Sings
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Anything Anything Else Else Leaves
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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Counted Never Succeed Succes
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Anything Anything Else Else Leaves
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Forever is composed of nows.

Composed Is Forever Of
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Does How Intrude Knock
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Celebrity Merit Punishment Talent
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