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/ page 522 of 1205 /There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
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Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than...
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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep, ...
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.
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