"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
-John Ashbery
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"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
-John Ashbery
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
-Morrie Schwartz
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"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
-Eudora Welty
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
-Khalil Gibran
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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-William Wordsworth
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