"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

-- Franz Grillparzer

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“Architects design houses. I live in a home.”
“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”
“I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.”
“The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,”
“Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen to the words. The parents have to listen to the words. God has to listen to the words. So, we have to make it positive. If you sing nursery rhymes, it is nothing. You just blow up tomorrow, and the record dies at the same time. But if you give positive words, that song lives forever.”
“I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.”
“We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We donâ€™t want to be wrong because then weâ€™ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.”
“The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.”

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