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Everything is complicated; if that

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Nothing could be more inappropriate

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Democritus plucked his eye out

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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The imagination is man's power

The imagination is man's power over nature.
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The poet is the priest

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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What our eyes behold may

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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To be young is all

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
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The philosopher proves that the

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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They said, You have a

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.
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