The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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This love is silent.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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