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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"The future is always beginning now."
Beginning
"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
Poetry
"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."
Want
"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
Destiny
"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
Poetry
"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."
Poetry
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
Truth
"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."
Poetry
"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
Life
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
Poems
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