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Quotes by Poet
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
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"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
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"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
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"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
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"Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
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"Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish."
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
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"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."
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"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
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"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."
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"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
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"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
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"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
Will,
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"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
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"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
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