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“Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.”

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Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its…

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I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and…

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“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the…

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She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I…

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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about…

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“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.”

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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance…

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Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream…

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“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”

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“...the liquor like fire in his hand”

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Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

Tony Robbins

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… Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small…

Rob Thomas

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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow…

William Makepeace Thackeray

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You can not kill that which is already dead.

The Undertaker

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Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

Bob Balaban

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You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life…

Paul Tudor Jones

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If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

William Shakespeare

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If I can not dance, I shall die!

Anna Pavlova

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I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

Michael Heizer

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I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do…

Linus Torvalds

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Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be…

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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