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- As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
- One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
- LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why…
- Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
- Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
- Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are…
- The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
- The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
- Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
- I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
- I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came…
- Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
- Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.
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