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/ page 677 of 1205 /Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
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Why, rain's my choice.
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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
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Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
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Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel... not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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