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José Martí : A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. # Poetry and Poets

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Alexander the Great : " A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. " # Poetry and Poets

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David Hare : " The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. " # Poetry and Poets

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Yasunari Kawabata : " Myōe exchanged poems with Saigyo and the two discussed poetry together. The following is from the biography of Myoe by his disciple Kikai: "Saigyo frequently came and talked of poetry. His own attitude towards poetry, he said, was far from the ordinary. Cherry blossoms, the cuckoo, the moon, snow: confronted with all the manifold forms of nature, his eyes and his ears were filled with emptiness. And were not all the words that came forth true words? When he sang of the blossoms the blossoms were not on his mind, when he sang of the moon he did not think of the moon. As the occasion presented itself, as the urge arose, he wrote poetry. The red rainbow across the sky was as the sky taking on color. The white sunlight was as the sky growing bright. Yet the empty sky, by its nature, was not something to become bright. It was not something to take on color. With a spirit like the empty sky he gives color to all the manifold scenes but not a trace remained. In such poetry was the Buddha, the manifestation of the ultimate truth." Here we have the emptiness, the nothingness, of the Orient. My own works have been described as works of emptiness, but it is not to be taken for the nihilism of the West. The spiritual foundation would seem to be quite different. Dogen entitled his poem about the seasons, "Innate Reality", and even as he sang of the beauty of the seasons he was deeply immersed in Zen. " # Poetry and Poets

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Loreena McKennitt : " May, 1993 - Stratford... have been reading through the poetry of 15th century Spain, and I find myself drawn to one by the mystic writer and visionary St. John of the Cross; the untitled work is an exquisite, richly metaphoric love poem between himself and his god. It could pass as a love poem between any two at any time ... His approach seems more akin to early Islamic or Judaic works in its more direct route to communication to his god... I have gone over three different translations of the poem, and am struck by how much a translation can alter our interpretation. I am reminded that most holy scriptures come to us in translation, resulting in a diversity of views. " # Poetry and Poets

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Virginia Woolf : " My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would be impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while. " # Poetry and Poets

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Bible : " The house appointed for all the living. " # Poetry and Poets

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Robert Frost : " There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. " # Poetry and Poets

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R Buckminster Fuller : " Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. " # Poetry and Poets

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Adlai E Stevenson : " Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This is the verse you grave for me:
'Here he lies where he longed to be;
Here is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.' " # Poetry and Poets

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Dorothy Parker : " Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. " # Poetry and Poets

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José Martí: " Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate." # Love # Peace # Law and Lawyers

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José Martí: " Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!" # Love # Necessity # Pleasure

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José Martí: " Oh, what company good poets are!" # Poetry and Poets

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José Martí: " A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them." # Literature # Knowledge # Tyranny

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José Martí: " To beautify life is to give it an object." # Time and Time Management

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José Martí: " Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him." # Grief # Love # Suffering

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José Martí: " Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests." # Poetry and Poets # Praise # Love

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José Martí: " A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men." # Courage # Love # Simplicity

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José Martí: " Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it." # Work # Life and Living # Modern and Modernism

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José Martí: " A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." # Poetry and Poets

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