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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."

"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
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