"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

-- Jean Cocteau

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“The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.”
“All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.”
“The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.”
“The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.”
“Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.”
“Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.”
“Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel”
“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”

Source : John Rawls, Erin Kelly (2001). “Justice as Fairness: A Restatement”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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