"Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing."
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
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"You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad."
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"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
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"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
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"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
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"Nature's first green is gold."
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"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."
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"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
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"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
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"Don't be agnostic - be something."
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"We love the things we love for what they are."
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"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
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"Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."
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"A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view."
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"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting."
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"I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else."
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"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places."
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"The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart."
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