Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Look your best - who said love is blind?
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
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Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone.
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The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
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A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
