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“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.”
“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”
“I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy.Now I set out bowls and plates.Every bowl will be shallow.Every plate will be small.And overflowing their rims,into the black earth, to ...”
“I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.”
“My heart was full of softening showers,I used to swing like this for hours,I did not care for war or death,I was glad to draw my breath.”
“By the craggy hill-side,Through the mosses bare,They have planted thorn-treesFor pleasure here and there.If any man so daringAs dig them up in spite,He shall find their sharpest thornsIn his bed at...”
“Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,”
“When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,You are free;From all your separations!”
“Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.”
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.”
“Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way”
“You are not worthless. Even if you've been called that your entire life.”
“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”
“. . .because we had survivedsisters and brothers, daughters and sons,we discovered bones that rosefrom the dark earth and sangas white birds in the treesBecause the story of our lifebecomes our lif...”
“Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodF...”
“Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you ha...”
“When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.”
“An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.”
“Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.”
