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I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

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My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

Body, Eye, Packed, Pairs, See, Single
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

Genius, Memories, Memory, Natural Gifts, Particular, Poetry

What is precious is never to forget The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth ; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Drawn, Grave, Morning, Simple, Spring

Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

Flower, Hero, Olive, Shore, Sunset, Wound

To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

Break, Eye, Light, Lock, Night, Words

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Block, Church, Religion, Stands, Sun
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