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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

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I was born to travel and write verse.

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What I write is not for little girls.

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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

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I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

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She who has never loved has never lived.

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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

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