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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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Superior people never make long visits.

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

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Out of a grave I come to tell you this, Out of a grave I come to quench the kiss...

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The forehead and the little ears Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;...

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He mourned Romance, now on the town, And Art, a vagrant.

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If after all that we have lived and thought, All comes to Nought,—...

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Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only fear....

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the cold eternal shores That look sheer down To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness Where all who know may drown.

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And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before...

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And at his heart there may have gnawed Sick memories of a dead faith foiled and flawed

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He set the jug down slowly at his feet With trembling care, knowing that most things break;

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I have never worked as I am now doing.

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Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

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Nothing would give up life; Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

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May you live out your life Without hate, without grief...

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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

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The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

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