"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."

Strength, Poems

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"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."

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"Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies."

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"Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement."

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"Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere."

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"Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had."

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"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."

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"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."

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"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

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"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."

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"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."

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"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."

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"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States."

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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology."

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"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era."

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"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit."

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"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies."

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