"Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it."
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"In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon."
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"Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten."
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"Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all."
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"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
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"Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams."
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"There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go."
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes."
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"Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law."
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"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."
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"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer."
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"Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought."
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"Beware of advice-even this."
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"There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams."
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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
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"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
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"All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker."
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"Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?"
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"In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows."
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"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
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