W. S. Merwin Quotes
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
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We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.
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It's not like the Rex Sox the year before. It's not even close.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
