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" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

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" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

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" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "

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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. "

" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "

" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

" Home is where one starts from. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "

" Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. "

" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "

" It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. "

" Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. "

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "

" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "