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"You are a lawmaker in your own right."
"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."
"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
"What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has."
"The devil is a professional in destroying lives, but the problem is that people themselves allow him to destroy their lives."
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"I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ..."
"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
"All day long, one storm then another-and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness."
"You were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?..."
"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."
"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."
"It's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ..."
"I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin..."
"Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths..."
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