W. S. Merwin Quotes
So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
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Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
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I feel like I can see the music and can see how the character of the music actually flows. For me, that's music to my eyes.
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The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
