Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
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- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
- Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- The best way out is always through.
- The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.