Quote #9

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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  2. A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
  3. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
  4. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
  5. The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy…
  6. I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
  7. As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. it is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should s…
  8. I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

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