Kathleen Raine Quotes
... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
Kathleen Raine
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
Warren Zevon
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
Marquis de Lafayette
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive.
If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100?
If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
Lonnie Donegan
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
Janet Jackson
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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
Napoleon Hill
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I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?
Dakota Johnson
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
Mark Levin
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
Marianne Williamson
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
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It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.
Alec Soth
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We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.
Rhett McLaughlin
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.
Kathleen Raine
