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Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.

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Robert Hass

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too

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