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no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.
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When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
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About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
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Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.
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The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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