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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think continually of those who were truly great.
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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at…
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So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success…
— D. James Kennedy
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True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort....
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!
— Karl Ludwig von Knebel
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Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.
— Jerome Groopman
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The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or…
— Stephen Spender
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And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a…
— Yehuda Amichai
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
— William Shakespeare
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Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
— Laini Taylor
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It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that…
— Michelle Sagara
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how…
— Walter Anderson
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