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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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Personal Development
"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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Personal Development
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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Personal Development
"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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Personal Development
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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Personal Development
"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
Poetry
"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
Poetry
"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
Life
"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
Poetry
"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
Poetry
"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."
People
"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
Destiny
"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."
Life
"I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful."
Truth
"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
Self-Awareness
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