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" They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. "

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" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" The best way out is always through. "

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. "

" We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. "

" A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. "

" I had a lovers quarrel with the world. "

" Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. "

" There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. "

" Freedom lies in being bold. "

" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. "

" I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. "

" Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. "

" I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. "

" The only way round is through. "

" I go to school the youth to learn the future. "

" Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. "

" I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. "

" Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. "

" And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. "

" The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. "

" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "

" Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. "

" The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. "

" To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. "

" A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. "