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Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
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“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”
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“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”
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“After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?”
“Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love ca...”
“These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Abo...”
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“Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat...”
“A poem should not mean But be.”