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you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the othe...more

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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live,...more

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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

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If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

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Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing history but in creating it...more

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It is hard to remember.”“Remember what?”“All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things one must try to remember. Do you kn...more