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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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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26th, 1888

Died: January 4th, 1965

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