Galway Kinnell Quotes
The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
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Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
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Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'
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The appeal to heaven breaks off.The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
