The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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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.
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Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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