“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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