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I believe fireman are mostly quiet sleepers who don't talk, cry, or moan in their sleep.

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Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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More than one day I read a newspaper from page one on through to the back page, every story. I liked especially the murders, the robberies, the divorces, the political squabbles.

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At Baylor University, on the flat lands of Texas, is the largest comprehensive collection of Browningiana in the world.

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I came to see how the common people close to the earth by their day-to-day usage of words make changes in their simplest speech.

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Dreamers most often got the loud horse laugh or the quiet merry titter.

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Lombard was strictly a small college, averaging 150 to 170 students.

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When no college events or odd jobs were doing, I worked Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings from about 6:30 to 10 o'clock.

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I was measured, pounded, squeezed, stethoscoped, given the works, and pronounced physically fit to be an officer of the United States Army.

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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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Home... for pancakes, eggs, and coffee from the always-smiling and cheerful mother who could hardly believe that one of her boys was going to college.

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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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The best part of my lecture was not reciting what I had written but the well-memorized lines Whitman wrote.

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I lingered at roadsides and wrote poems-the poems not so good but I had the lingering and that was good.

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I smoked endless pipes of Scraps, the crushed and cheap but pure tobacco leaves.

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I met and came to respect a Vineland lawyer who later became a judge. I met another lawyer, young, lusty, gabby, who said that every weekend in summer he took this woman and that to Atlantic City for fun and a few drinks.

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