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Quotes by Poet
"The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in."
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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
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"The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come."
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"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
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"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"
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"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture."
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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
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"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."
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"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
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"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
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"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."
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"We have to establish ourselves in the here and now in order to truly eat. All through the meal, we should really be here with the people at the table. As we chew our food, we should really be here with what we are eating. We can get deeply in touch with the food, which is a gift from the earth and sky."
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"Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief."
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"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken."
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"Mindful observation is based on the principle of "non-duality: our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go."
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