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Quote by Diane Ackerman
There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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Poetry
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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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Life
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. – Mervyn Peake

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Senses

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown

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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler

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God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. – Robert H. Schuller

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