W. S. Merwin Quotes
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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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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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
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I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.
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I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
