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Quotes by Poet
"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering."
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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."
Art,
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"Memories, like everything else, are momentary."
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"Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night."
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"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
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"Everyone wants to be happy, and there is a strong energy in us pushing us toward what we think will make us happy. But we may suffer a lot because of this. We need the insight that position, revenge, wealth, fame, or possessions are, more often than not, obstacles to our happiness. We need to cultivate the wish to be free of these things so we can enjoy the wonders of life that are always available - the blue sky, the trees, our beautiful children."
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"Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in."
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"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."
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"Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now."
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"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
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"Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?"
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"You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had."
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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
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"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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"Smiling is a kind of mouth yoga. When we smile, it releases the tension in our face. Others notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. By smiling, we initiate a wonderful chain reaction, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. A smile is an ambassador of goodwill."
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"A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect."
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"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."
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"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."
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"A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear."
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"We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect."
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"As long as you're with you, that's all that matters."
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"That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there."
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