“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”
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American poet 1926–2001Related quotes

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Variant: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
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“Drive the natural away, it returns at a gallop.”
Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop.
Glorieux, IV, 3, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 545. Idea in La Fontaine, Fables, Book II. 18. "Chassez les prejugés par la porte, ils rentreront par la fenêtre." As used by Frederick the Great, Letter to Voltaire (March 19, 1771).
In the introduction for the short-story collection Unicorn Variations (1983)