“ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
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“ A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ”
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“ And the time sundials tell May be minutes and hours. But it may just as well Be seconds and sparkles, or seasons and flowers. No, I don't think of time as just minutes and hours. Time can be heartbeats, or bird songs, or miles, Or waves on a beach, or ants in their files (They do move like seconds—just watch their feet go: Tickticktick, like a clock). You'll learn as you grow That whatever there is in a garden, the sun Counts up on its dial. By the time it is done Our sundial—or someone's— will certainly add All the good things there are. Yes, and all of the bad. And if anyone's here for the finish, the sun Will have told him—by sundial—how well we have done. How well we have done, or how badly. Alas, That is a long thought. Let me hope we all pass. ”
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“ Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ”
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“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
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“ A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. ”
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“ A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. ”
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“ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
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“ You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
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“ What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. ”
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“ The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ”
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“ The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ”
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“ You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
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“ A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ”
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“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
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“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
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“ The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. ”
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“ Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ”
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“ The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ”
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“ A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. ”
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“ The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. ”
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“ The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. ”
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“ It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes. ”
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“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
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“ It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes. ”
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“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”
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