"Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom."
"In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying."
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Source: James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Wesleyan University Press
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