Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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If you don't know - thats what life is made of,
Don't lose the now!
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
Robert Fitzgerald
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Gottfried Leibniz