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" Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? "

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" The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. "

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

" In my beginning is my end. "

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

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

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

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

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

" Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. "

" 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.' "

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

" A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "