"Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is."

-- Robert Bly

“I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.”
“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

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“Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.”
“This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.”
“I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.”
“The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.”
“Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.”
“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2013). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.55, The New Press

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