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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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In my beginning is my end.

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Home is where one starts from.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26th, 1888

Died: January 4th, 1965

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