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"We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same."
"poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing."
"I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials."
"Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest."
"Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time."
"For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer."
"It feels a long way up and down from zero."
"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn."
"I'm not stubborn. My way is just better."
"It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward."
"Everyone must live, and everyone must express themselves, and must express themselves in the way of their karma."
"I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling."
"That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities."
"The more we are cleansed of conflicts, all sorts of conflicts, the easier it is for us to use our energy in a way that attracts the immutable healing of it all."
"Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just."
"The way that I live my life is on spontaneity."
"You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do."
"I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script."
"I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way."
"You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way."
