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Quotes by Poet
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
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"You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy mystery which is public knowledge.Rejoice in the true illusion, in the serious game: no living thing is a unity, it is always manifold."
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"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
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"Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand."
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"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
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"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."
48
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
48
"Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!"
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"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
46
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
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"Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
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"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse."
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"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
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"Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality."
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"The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting."
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"Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
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"Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses."
44
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
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"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
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