Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

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