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    W.B. Yeats
    “There is another world, but it is in this one.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: misattributed
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    Walt Whitman
    “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: soul, truth
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    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
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    W.B. Yeats
    “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: poetry
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: irish, irish-writer, joy, tragedy, william-butler-yeats
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    Walt Whitman
    “And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Walt Whitman
    “Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works
    tags: churches, conflict, credulous, curious, democracy, fable, fossil, glorious, instructive, literature, mythic, poetry, primitive, prose, schools, science, science-vs-religion, spectacle, superstitious, testing, theology, untaught
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    Walt Whitman
    “Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Walt Whitman
    “I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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    “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: aging-well, disillusionment, growing-older, philosophy
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: love-in-the-time-of-cholera
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: inspirational, life-happiness
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
    tags: creativity
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
    tags: ambiguity, art, complexity, writing
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, writing
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
    tags: author-quotes, inspiration, writing-life
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul"-- Joyce Carole Oates”
    ― Joyce Carole Oates
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    Walt Whitman
    “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
    You must travel it by yourself.
    It is not far. It is within reach.
    Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
    Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: autonomy, journey, self-reliance
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    W.H. Auden
    “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: book
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    W.H. Auden
    “All we are not stares back at what we are.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: potential, self-improvement
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    W.H. Auden
    “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “There are good books which are only for adults.
    There are no good books which are only for children.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: auden, books, children
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    W.H. Auden
    “No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “There is no such thing as the State
    And no one exists alone;
    Hunger allows no choice
    To the citizen or the police;
    We must love one another or die.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “Follow, poet, follow right
    To the bottom of the night,
    With your unconstraining voice
    Still persuade us to rejoice;

    With the farming of a verse
    Make a vineyard of the curse,
    Sing of human unsuccess
    In a rapture of distress;

    In the deserts of the heart
    Let the healing fountain start,
    In the prison of his days
    Teach the free man how to praise.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Another Time
    tags: poetry
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    W.H. Auden
    “Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
    ― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
    tags: mirror, self, shadow
    124 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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