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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 2nd, 1879

Died: August 2nd, 1955

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