"What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning."

-- T. S. Eliot

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“I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.”
“In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.”
“Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!”
“Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.”
“Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.”
“To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers
“Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

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