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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, "It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune."

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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Do not go gentle into that good night. RAGE, RAGE against the dying of the light.

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And all your deeds and words, Each truth, each lie, Die in unjudging love.

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Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that...

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Were that enough, bone, blood, and sinew, The twisted brain, the fair-formed loin,...

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Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

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18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.

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A fig for The seal of fire,...

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And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon;

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Oh, let me midlife mourn by the shrined And druid herons' vows...

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When the salt sheet broke in a storm of singing The voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.

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... burned to tireless death A child of a few hours...

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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

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A process in the weather of the world Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child...

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