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

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

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

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

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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

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

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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.

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The point of vision and desire are the same.

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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.

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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

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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.

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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.

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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

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