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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom

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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again

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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me

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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through

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Even the worst book can give us something to think about

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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination

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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory and mine only while I look

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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses

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After every war someone has to tidy up

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