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Quotes by Poet
"Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment."
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
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"Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you."
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"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
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"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
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"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
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"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."
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"The best things in life make you sweaty."
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
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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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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
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"We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us."
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
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"If you can love one person, you can love everyone."
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
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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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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
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"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."
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