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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
— Edward Hirsch
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t…
— William S. Burroughs
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care…
— Alfred Nobel
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The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my…
— William Jones
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
— Thomas Jefferson
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My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me…
— Brother Lawrence
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
— Dusty Springfield
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Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
— Bob Hope
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To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape…
— John Muir
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
— Alexander Hamilton
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I never change, except in my affections.
— Oscar Wilde
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