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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American Average AverageAmerican BeHappy
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Blood Alone Moves Wheels
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The Fewer The Words
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Bit Fame Fulfill Temporary
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Because Blond First Girl
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solace and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

My Heart Which Full
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

About Disappointing Few Friends
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

There Is No More
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Hour Last Wish Past
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Actress Five IThink Started
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Kings Fewer Earth Been
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Clouds Display Fear Wish
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Field Crowd Foolish Mirrors
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Desire Give Nothing Reason
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Desire Point Same Vision
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Mind Never Satisfied
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Others Done I can
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

Day Evening King Sun
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

End Wisdom High Seeking
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible

Failed Dream Perfection Basis
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Prefer After Beauty Know
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

World Today Equality Color
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .
Writer Culture Country Fine
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

After Final Future World
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alone Beauty Come Death
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Candle Dark God High
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Beyond Difficult Find More
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Forces Imagination Nature Words
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Becomes Case Certain Epidemic
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Around Depends Lake Perhaps
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Applied Bearing Dress Found
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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