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"Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with."
Joy
"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."
Being
"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."
Writing
"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."
Imagination
"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."
Life
"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."
Art
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
Poetry
"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
Life
"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
Music
"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."
Love
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