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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

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Marie Howe

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest
is retribution.

Commits, Crime, Retribution, Traitor
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Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

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Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable. . . The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

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Memory is a poet, not an historian.

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Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words
that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

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Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story. . . told for the body to forget what it once loved.

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