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Quotes by Poet

"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."

"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."

"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."

"As long as you're with you, that's all that matters."

"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."

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."

"It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life."

"When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation."

"Take my handand, feel the sandbeneath your aimless feettowards the sparkling waves."

"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."

"No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars."

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

"Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world."

"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"

"Write from the heart always."

"Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it."

"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."

"Love, and you shall be loved."

"If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn't matter today."

"O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!"

"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."

"Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?"

"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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