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• Men expect too much, do too little.
• Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
• How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or…
• Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never…
• At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that…
• The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into…
• But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
• The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
• I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term…
• According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would…
• I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have…

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