Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

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