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One Quotes by Charles Simic
- Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
- There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make…
- We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay…
- One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
- Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle