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- Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
- When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
- Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think…
- Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as…
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- All eternity is in the moment.
- Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
- And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to…
- Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed…
- I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not…
- For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the…
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
- Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
- maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
- Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it…
- There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea…
- On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how…
- In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am…
- I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs…
- When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And…
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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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle