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“Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.” quote by F. Sionil Jose — Download Open image

“Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.”

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“There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David”

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”

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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,…

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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

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In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

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Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals,…

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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or…

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“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques in manufacturing goods, the management of a home. That is what most of you will be doing anyway. We read these because they teach us…

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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the…

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It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and…

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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

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“Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.”

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It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

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It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

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For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

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People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never…

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There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

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For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as…

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