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Quotes by Poet
"What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?"
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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
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"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
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"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."
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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope."
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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
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"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"
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"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
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"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
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"Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. If we know how to live according to the insight of impermanence, we will not make many mistakes. We can be happy right now. We can love our beloved, care for her, and make her happy today. And we won't run toward the future, losing our life, which is available only in the present moment."
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"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."
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"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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