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I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the...more

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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloudAnd goes down burning into the gulf below,No voice in nature is heard to cry aloudAt what has happened. ...more

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects ...more

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the wor...more

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To wher...more

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themsel...more

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.