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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."
Man
"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."
Reading
"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
Art
"I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early."
Friendship
"I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up."
Writing
"Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help."
Poetry
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
Sex
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."
Poetry
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