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

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I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.

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The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

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The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egre…

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I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

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There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

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We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic mar…

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It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

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I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

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I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

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It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

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