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"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
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"I'll tell you a piece of news - I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell."
"Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof."
"Don't let them tell us stories."
"In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry."
"Listening is more important than solutioning."
"If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear."
"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"
"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."
"Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction."
"Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one's senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart."
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"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
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