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"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
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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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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."

"Without love, life is unsustainable."

"The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor."

"Life fits the shoe you walk in."

"A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense."

"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."
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"He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."


"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."


"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."


"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."


"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."


"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."


"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."


"Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid."


"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
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