"Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty."

-- Lionel Trilling

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“A natural adversary is a customer service representative.”
“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.”
“It was very difficult but definitely not a snap decision”

Source : "Sugababes unveil new singer" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.”
“Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.”
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.”
“Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.”

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