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The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.

— Louise Glück Vita Nova (1999)

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.

Meadowlands (1996)

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

Ararat (1990)

Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.

Descending Figure (1980)

I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.

The Seven Ages (2001)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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