At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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