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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
— Adam Gopnik
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
— Muriel Rukeyser
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…
— Richard Francis Burton
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Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together…
— Rumi
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People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
— Charles Bukowski
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Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
— Del Close
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth…
— William Ernest Henley
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just…
— James Laughlin
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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
— Richard Burton
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