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“At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”

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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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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

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The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world

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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

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I am what is around me.

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“We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide…

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“Lunar Paraphrase" The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. When, at the wearier end of November, Her old light moves along the…

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Poetry is the scholar's art.

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“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”

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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

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Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

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