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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
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Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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