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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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