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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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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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…
— Stephen Spender
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If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
— Edward Abbey
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
— C.S. Lewis
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end…
— M.I.A.
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Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.
— Charles L. Allen
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The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.
— Jared Leto
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
— Percy Ross
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A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you…
— Epictetus
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