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Quotes by Poet
"Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymore---not a woman, not even the boy with the brown squint-eye:I'll sit here anyway. One can always watch."
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"When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor."
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"The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it."
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."
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"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet."
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."
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"And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts,into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be."
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"If you think your world isn't poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that's not because it's a dull world, that's because you're not poet enough to wake its soul up."
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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
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"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!"
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"Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!"
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Man,
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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."
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"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
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"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah, it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
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