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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

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Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

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When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

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A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

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Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

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