"Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes."

-- W. S. Merwin

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“I really donâ€™t care what people think.”
“Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.”
“The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.”
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
“During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.”
“As soon as I leave the world [of the show], I want to turn around and come back. That's how real it is. As soon as I leave the theater I want to wake up and come back the next day and do it all over again. It's that much fun.”
“Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.”
“To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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