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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

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In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?

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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

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I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

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