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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop…
— Martha Beck
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a…
— Honore de Balzac
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
— Kenneth Branagh
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly,…
— Abdallah II
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
— Abraham Cahan
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The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or…
— Lester Thurow
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
— James A. Garfield
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves…
— M. Scott Peck
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