"Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone"

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Source : Dannie Abse, Jeremy Robson (1973). “Poetry Dimension”

Dannie Abse

“The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.”
“No worry before its time.”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.182, Ballantine Books
“I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.”
“To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.”
“If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.”
“The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.”
“Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.”
“Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.”

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