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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness...more

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

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I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from...more

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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thou...more

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The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, ...more