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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26th, 1888

Died: January 4th, 1965

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