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Quotes by Poet
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
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"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
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"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."
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"Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."
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"Reading books is like wearing winter clothes, it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul."
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"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity."
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"Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life."
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"Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you."
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"Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man."
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"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."
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"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."
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"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."
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"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For beauty," I replied."And I for truth, the two are one;We brethren are," he said.And so, as kinsmen met a night,We talked between the rooms,Until the moss had reached our lips,And covered up our names."
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"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"
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"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"
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"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
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"Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new."
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"People don't remember lessons. They remember stories."
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"A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on."
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"Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?"
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"Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Arouse! Arousefor you must justify meyou must answer.I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face,Leaving it to you to prove and define it,Expecting the main things from you."
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"The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a rise of goose bumps on my skin."
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"They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful."
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"You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it."
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"We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us."
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