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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

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My witness is the empty sky.

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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

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Accept loss forever.

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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

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A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

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There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

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Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

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There is a great deal of human nature in man.

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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

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