"It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship."

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Source : John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House

John Fuller

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“When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.”
“How are you going to protect me?? do you even know what it means to protect someone?? you think giving a crying person icecream is a way of comforting or protecting them?!?! you don't even know anything! you don't know how to love someone, you don't know how to show love, and you don't know what it means to protect someone. you hurt people without realizing it”
“It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?”
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
“People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012
“I wanted to see if I could write a good book.”
“You donâ€™t know who you are until you know God and you donâ€™t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.”
“Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.”

Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology”, p.26

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