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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I associate learning to read - English, oddly enough - with wanting to know about Indians. I'm still growing into it. I've never outgrown that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, much that is learned is bound to be bad habits. You're always beginning again.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a great gift to be given, that feeling of no fear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech. It was something that had a certain formality, something in which the words were of interest in themselves.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.
- Faulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020