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5714 Poet Quotes

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty Eternity Gazing Itself
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Beginning Of Knowledge Perplexity
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Between Gardens Sadness Two
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You have your ideology and I have mine.

Ideology Mine You Your
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Among Dreams Gold He
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Away Awe-Inspiring Clearly Far
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Among Follow Hard Hidden
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Divides Doctrine Like Many
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Give Joy Reward Those
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Crumbs Down Fall Feast
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Close God Heart Just
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Am I Am I Have Learned Intolerant
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Breaking Pain Shell Understanding
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Abundance Also Days Distress
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Been Depth Ever Hour
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Beauty Chief First Found
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Away Before Bow Children
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Ages Art Criticism Distinguishes
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Between Change Dialectic Lies
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Begins Criticism Grammar Meanings
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Because Different Does He
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Beggars Know Society Western
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Bit Condemned Die Thus
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Ears Eyes Hear Our
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Another Attempt Being Love
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Before Big Little Me
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

World Beautiful Terrible Thing
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
God Place Deep Gladness
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Go where your best prayers take you

Go Prayer Take
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
Life Grace Sleep Night
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Grace God Life Complete
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Doubt Ant Pants Faith
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Coincidence God Attention
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt

Life Touch Trembling Felt
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Impossible God Demonstrate Existence
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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Miracle Greater Sum Parts
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
Wise Eternally Curious
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Words Unsaid Split Friends
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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Vocation Deep Gladness
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Lust Craving Salt Dying
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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are
Wake Morning God Feet
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Remember Ill Good Dream
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Power God Love Answer
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
God Himself Answer
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Process Reveal God Room
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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Survive Grow Strong Own
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Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Listen Life Moments
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Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Whether God Preserve
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