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- A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
- I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the…
- Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear…
- All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating…
- I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide