Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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

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For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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