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-An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

-Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

-Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

-Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

-Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

-You are the music while the music lasts.