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" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. "

" 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. "

" The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. "

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

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" This love is silent. "

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" This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. "

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

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" If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' "