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"The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even."
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"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
"The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart..."
"Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn."
"How now, spirit, whither wander you?"
"You are a dance of a divine spirit, you just have to realize it."
"Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
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