"If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?"

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William Butler Yeats

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“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”
“There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.”

Source : "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.
“It's fun to learn a new playbook.”
“My mom said I wasn't allowed to date until I was sixteen, but I broke that rule. She found out and said, 'I'm disappointed in you.'”
“For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.”
“My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read â€œall the flavor of being a girl.â€.. In the car, I draped the black lanyard around my neck with a single green plastic balm dangling. I proudly dangled my girlhood in all its fruitiness. It cost only $2.99.”
“But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)”
“Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.”

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