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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

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Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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Envy is an insult to oneself.

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

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To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. Wha…

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