"When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him."
Allen Greenfield
"Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away."
Eileen Myles
"Eyes shows lies."
Anonymous
"But I cant' translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many foreign languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way."
DarknessAndLight
"Helping yourself is a privilege. Helping others is an honor."
Sravani Saha Nakhro
"When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Earl Nightingale
"I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods."
Stanley Hauerwas
"Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact."
Naomi Wolf
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer."
Randy Pausch
"Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck."
Kim Addonizio
"Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you."
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