Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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To Dives

Who am I to condemn you, O Dives,
I who am as much embittered
With poverty
As you are with useless riches ?

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Women Before A Shop

The gew-gaws of false amber and false turquoise attract them.
'Like to like nature': these agglutinous yellows!

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

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Coda

O My songs,
Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into
people's faces,
Will you find your lost dead among them?

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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Alba

As cool as the pale wet leaves
      Tof lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.

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