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What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

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Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good -- in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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No escape, No such thing to dream of new dimensions, Cheating checkmate by painting the king's robe So that he slides like a queen.

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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

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One smile relieves a heart that grievesthough deadly sad it be,and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see.

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When the days of rejoicing are over,When the flags are stowed safely away,They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'And another wild Armistice day.

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You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath My writing arm.

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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Any honest housewife would sort them out, Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

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Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

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Across two counties he can hear And catch your words before you speak. The woodlouse or the maggot's weak Clamour rings in his sad ear, And noise so slight it would surpass Credence.

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As for the Freudian, it is a very low, Central European sort of humour.

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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

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They carry Time looped so river-wise about their house There's no way in by history's road To name or number them.

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Love is a universal migraineA bright stain on the visionBlotting out reason.

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The thundering text, the snivelling commentary.

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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and if he is lucky enough know the love of an honest woman.

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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

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Take your delight in momentariness,Walk between dark and dark - a shining spaceWith the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.

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Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience' They're talking to a single person all the time.

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