"I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me."

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Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

Sam Hamill

#Writing Quotes #Practice Quotes #Separation Quotes

“I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.”
“Since when do we let the government decide what is or isnt good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?....If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "its in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.”

Source : "Good to Be King". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.
“Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “From the Heart: One Minute Devotions”
“My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.”
“The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.”
“People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.”
“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.”
“Olympics for me is love, peace, united.”

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