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Shruti Sharma
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“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
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“But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.”
― Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
― Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
“According to the Chinese system of medicine, stagnation is the cause of many illnesses.”
― Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
― Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
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“Poetry is a kind of lying, necessarily. To profit the poet or beauty. But also in that truth may be told only so. Those who, admirably, refuse to falsify (as those who will not risk pretensions) are excluded from saying even so much. Degas said he didn’t paint what he saw, but what would enable them to see the thing he had.”
― Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
― Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
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