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Quotes by Poet
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."
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"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
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"How surely gravity's law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of the smallest thingand pulls it toward the heart of the world.Each thing---each stone, blossom, child---is held in place.Only we, in our arrogance,push out beyond what we each belong tofor some empty freedom.If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin againto learn from the things,because they are in God's heart;they have never left him.This is what the things can teach us:to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly."
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"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
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"If you can love one person, you can love everyone."
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"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
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"You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With clinging tendrils, one adheres;The other rises forcibly in questOf rarefied ancestral spheres.If there be spirits in the airThat hold their sway between the earth and sky,Descend out of the golden vapors thereAnd sweep me into iridescent life.Oh, came a magic cloak into my handsTo carry me to distant lands,I should not trade it for the choicest gown,Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown."
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"Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense."
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
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"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity."
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"Lightning hides the colour of night."
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"Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life."
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"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
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"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
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"I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed."
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"Only this actual moment is life."
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