"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."

Jim Goad, Australian Author

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"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

George C. Williams, American Scientist

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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George Ripley, American Activist

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Rachel Bilson, American Actress

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