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She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all But that she had not lived enough to know

Lived Harmless life Virtuous Quiet
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

Beloved Live Work Better
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The world of books is still the world.
World Books
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Love me Naught
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.But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.

Child's sob Silence Deeper Man
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I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

Love Men Strive Praise
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The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside me...

Face World Changed Footsteps
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But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity

Love Love's sake Eternity
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I shall but love thee bitter after death

Love Bitter Death
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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Wisest Word man Humblest
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Painful times Reading Grammars Dictionaries
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I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

Love freely Praise Passion
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I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.

Take her God Made Unmask
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Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!

Love Make World Go round
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I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood I will not have my thoughts instead of thee Who art dearer, better!

I think Thought Twine Vine
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True knowledge comes only through suffering

True knowledge Through suffering
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The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—- Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.

Heart Recognise Sweet Fair
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Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and taught the whole Of life in a new rhythm.

Dreadful Obvious Sink Caught
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Poet Unhealthier Regular Temptations
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something.

Life Behaved Running Edges
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Read poem World Good one
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all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

My life Lived Behaved Running
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Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Dream Our dreams Too
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I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Made right World
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Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

Long trip Home Stayed
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Time to plant tears, says the almanac.The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

Time Plant tears Grandmother Marvelous
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But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight.The gull inquired into his dream,which was, I must not fall.The spangled sea below wants me to fall.It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

Sleep Mast Closed tight Dream
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Live today Greater happiness Passing by
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music.. some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

Addicted Gigantic Small work Poem
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Cars Dreams Contrived Dangerous
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All the untidy activity continues,awful but cheerful.

Untidy activity Cheerful
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I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen.
Nothing Stranger Happened
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All of life is a foreign country.

Country Foreign Foreign Country Life
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Consciousness Die Give Great
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

Around Boyhood Got Kitchen
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Crime Fault Indifference Moderation
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Best Land Laughed Men
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Beatnik Bohemian Certain Elements
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Accomplished Fads Great Great Things
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
New Old Teach Tune
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Amazement Recollection Write Yourself
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My witness is the empty sky.

Empty My Sky Witness
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Anybody Confusion Except Had
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Eye Life Life Is A Maybe
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Also Beings Dream Dreaming
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Avoid Drag Dust End
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Control Failure Fault Lack
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Become Course Immediately Offer
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Did Direction Every Every Time
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