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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."
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"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
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"What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true."
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"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work."
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"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"
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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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"Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me."
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"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."
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"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."
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"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."
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"The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time."
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"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."
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