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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26th, 1888

Died: January 4th, 1965

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