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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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A word is elegy to what it signifies.
— Robert Hass
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Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
— Dorianne Laux
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Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
— Jose Rizal
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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet…
— Wilfred Owen
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My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically…
— Nick Brandt
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I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically…
— Nick Brandt
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Every angel is terrifying.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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