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Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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Richard E. Byrd
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it.
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Author Unknown
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
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Learned Hand
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.
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William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
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Hippilyte Taine
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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