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"Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem."
"We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature."
"Mind is shapely, Art is shapely."
"I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade."
"The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood."
"The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world."
"The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism."
"I love what I do, so I don't mind working."
"My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked."
"We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds."
"An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value."
"What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance."
"We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency."
"You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value."
"... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical."
"The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind."
"Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight."
"Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind."
"Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides."
"I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?"
