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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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And we must think no further of you.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths -your abilities and your failings.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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