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    And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

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    A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

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    A political leader worthy of assassination

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    Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

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    Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

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    God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

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    how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.

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    I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

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    Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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    It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

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    Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

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    Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

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    To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

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    We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

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    When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.