All Quotes By Tag: Poetry
“The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.”
“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
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“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
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“None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.”
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“And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.–from The Light, That Never Dies”
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“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
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“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.”
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“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
“Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.”
“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”
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“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, “Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”
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“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
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“If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.”
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