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" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

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" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

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" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "

" 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. "

" The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. "

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

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "

" 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. "

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

" Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. "

" The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. "

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" In my beginning is my end. "

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" It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. "

" All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. "

" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "