Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

A. R. Ammons's Popular Quotes

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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What destruction have I been blessed by?

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I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited,…

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once e…

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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