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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

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R. S. Thomas

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is that
which arrives at the intellect
by way of the heart.

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To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

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The meaning is in the waiting.

Meaning, Waiting

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

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Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?

Alone, Balance, Hands, Hoping, Like, Space

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