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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

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Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

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A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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Do not go gentle into that good night.

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

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Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

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Not all who wander are lost.

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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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