"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

Life, Poetry, Fact, Vocation

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"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"I am born to win."

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