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/ page 625 of 1205 /A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!
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The good die first And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
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Our haughty life is crowned with darkness, Like London with its own black wreath,
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
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A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
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Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
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Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
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the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
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A slumber did my spirit seal;/ I had no human fears:/ She seemed a thing that could not feel/ The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force;/ She neither hears nor sees;/ Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . .
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As high as we have mounted in delight,In our dejection do we sink as low.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.
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This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
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All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
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Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.
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