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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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Knowledge
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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War
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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. Thats what writing is all about. – Wislawa Szymborska

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. – Gerald Good

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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau

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By the Obama administrations reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. – John Cornyn

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