“ I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds. ”
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“ I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ The job of the poet is to render the world — to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ”
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“ When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ”
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“ The job of the poet is to render the world — to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ”
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“ There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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“ To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ”
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