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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.
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Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
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I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.
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Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
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I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....
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In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.
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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.
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It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.
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If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye
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The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. From The Mower
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Life is first boredom, then fear. whether or not we use it, it goes, and leaves what something hidden from us chose, and age, and then the only end of age.
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