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““The soprano studies for seven years in order to be able to open her mouth and make loud sounds for three hours on end.””

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... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

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The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

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Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

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I don't like quintessential certitude.

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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

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“You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted…

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The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

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“Leave-Taking" I do not know where either of us can turn Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other. I do not know how we can bear The river struck by the gold plummet of the moon, Or many trees shaken together in the darkness. We shall wish not to be alone And that love were not dispersed…

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But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a…

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“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them all.”

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