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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we…
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the…
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.…
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot…
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is…
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Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.
— Ernie Banks
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty…
— Sun Tzu
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted…
— Akira Mori
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God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship…
— Marva Dawn
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Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.
— Christopher J. H. Wright
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Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
— Connie Sellecca
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The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet.…
— Renee Olstead
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