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Superior people never make long visits.

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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

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There never was a war that was not inward.

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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 15th, 1887

Died: February 5th, 1972

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