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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible."
"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."
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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed."
"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
"If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."
"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without."
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