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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. "

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" 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. "

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" A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. "

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

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" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

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" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "

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" Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. "