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/ page 1128 of 1205 /In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
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It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
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You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.
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You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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