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5714 Poet Quotes

Nature is a petrified magic city.
City Magic Nature Petrified
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Closely ConnectedInvisible More Than
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Everywhere Home Philosophy Properly
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Comprehend Far More Never
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Character Conception Deeply Ever Fate
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Acquainted Against Become Disputed
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Beloved Center Every Object
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Divinity Indispensable Links Mediator
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Abandon Art Balance Dream
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

About American Being Just
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Artist Competition God Somebody
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Artists Labels Resistant
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Artist Besides Me Movie
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Christianity Heaven Made Think
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

BeAMan Everyone God Help
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

Anybody First FirstOfAll Lasted
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

Broke England Horses Much
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Always Doing Enjoyed Songs
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Always Childhood Financial Great
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Become Daughter Grow GrowUp
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Gonna Live Never Thought
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Adjustment Constantly IThink State
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I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

Always Encouragement Others Thrive
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Calling Fact InFact Painter
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Bowls Changed Children Citizen
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Any Artist Calling Duty
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Die Gutter Maybe Paris
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Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
Got He Heavens Know
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My mother answers all my fan mail.

Answers Fan FanMail Mail
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Guitar Like Sunglasses
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Artist Does Fact Feel
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

After Drawings Getting Handwriting
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Artists Coming Communication Engaged
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Between Born Forests Grew
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Forgetting Long Love Short
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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Cherry Does Spring Trees
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Cannot Coming Cut Flowers
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Born Bullets Crime Day
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Between Cities Joined Night
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Bread Flour Goes Making
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Child Does Forever He
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Brand Dream Rock Rock-N-Roll
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Fools People Power Redeem
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Desire Fiery Go LetGo
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Any AsFarAs Being Concerned
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