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- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
- Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
- The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.