"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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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Body, Consciousness, Imagination, Emotion

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Body, Friend, Reliability, Trust

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Body,

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Body, Mind, Will

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Body, Health, Neglect, Humor

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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

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"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."

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"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."

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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."

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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

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