Marie Ponsot famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.
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I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air
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Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.
-- Marie Ponsot
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
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The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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