"The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing."

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Eileen Myles

#Wise Quotes #Fool Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.”
“The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind.”
“The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (2009). “Siddhartha”, p.8, Modern Library
“I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.”

Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2016). “Beyond: England Literature”, p.10, 谷月社
“Do something everyday that you don't want to do.”
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
“Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.”

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