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" Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. "

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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. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" 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. "

" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "

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

" My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. "

" 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. "

" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" This love is silent. "

" 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. "

" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "

" The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. "

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

" 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. "

" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "

" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "

" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "

" So the lover must struggle for words. "

" Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. "

" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "

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