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All Quotes Collection
"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
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"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."
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"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
God,
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"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
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"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."
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"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
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"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
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"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."
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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."
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"I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."
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"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."
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"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
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"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."
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"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
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"I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it."
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"I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you."
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"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"
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"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."
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"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
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"Wise men argue causes; fools decide them."
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"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness."
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"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."
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"Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away."
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"May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland."
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"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier."
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"I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity."
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