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/ page 170 of 1205 /There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
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... farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
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He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
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Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
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You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.
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What's curious, you get the tone that makes you recognize that Michael Ondaatje is part of a culture, not simply a singular writer; he's part of a whole way of seeing reality.
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I've been reading a terrific writer, just not read enough, a poet, David Rattray. He's got a terrific collection of essays, classic essays of preoccupations and musing and information and experience, called How I Became One of the Invisible.
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