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A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel—but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling—not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time—and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.
If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.
And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world—unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does that sound dismal? It isn’t.
It’s the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
E. E. Cummings, A Poet’s Advice to Students
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The worst things are kept secret, and it destroys people.
Nan Goldin in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
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To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
Hannah Arendt
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The first step to fixing something is to know no matter how destroyed it seems, it can always be saved.
Joe Goldberg in You
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Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Rumi
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
(Déjà essayé. Déjà échoué. Peu importe. Essaie encore. Échoue encore. Échoue mieux.)
Samuel Beckett
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Pour moi, être aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.
André Gide
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Avez-vous agi conformément au désir qui vous habite ? Ceci n’est pas une question facile à soutenir. C’est une question, je le prétends, qui n’a jamais été posée dans cette pureté ailleurs qu’elle ne peut l’être, c’est-à -dire dans le contexte analytique.
Jacques Lacan, SĂ©minaire VII
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Il n’y a pas d’autre bien que ce qui peut servir à payer le prix de l’accès au désir.
Jacques Lacan, SĂ©minaire VII
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Je propose que la seule chose dont on puisse être coupable, au moins dans la perspective analytique, c’est d’avoir cédé sur son désir.
Jacques Lacan, SĂ©minaire VII
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1. When a man cannot say anything good about himself, and want to say something, he will start speaking bad about others.
2. Grab science instead of the throat of a loved one, if you want to grab something.
3. Depression was given to man in order for him to be able to think about himself.
4. Nobody rejects someone. He only goes forward. The one who was left behind considers himself rejected.
5. If you believe that you are a good person, why do you need someone else to think that about you?
6. Do what you want and don’t ask for permission. You will never get it anyway.
7. The signs of spiritual maturity are the ability to love and the ability to handle loneliness. We are doing the best things when we are alone.
8. An immature person often knows, but cannot do it. A mature person not only knows, but does it. Therefore, an immature person criticizes and a mature one just does.
9. I don’t know the road to success. But I know the road to unsuccessfulness – it is the desire to be liked by everyone.
10. There is no masculine or feminine logic. There is only ability or inability to think rightly.
11. Do you only want to know who is your biggest enemy? Look in the mirror. Defeat him and the others will flee.
12. Achieve success – all the insults will pass.
13. It is nice to talk with friends. It is useful to talk to enemies.
14. There is only one reason to quit your job or end a relationship – the inability to achieve personal growth in the given circumstances.
15. You should share only joy with friends and enemies. Your friends will be happy and your enemies will be upset.
16. Don’t chase happiness and you will find a happy place. I can tell you the place where happiness is – it's in you. The road to happiness is the maximal development of all your abilities.
17. Happiness is a product of nicely organised living.
18. If you want to prove something to someone, you exist only for that person. If you exist for yourself, then you don’t need to prove anything to anyone.
19. Imagination – the voice of all our abilities. Therefore, I don’t dream of singing opera. I don’t have the voice for that. And if I dream of that, I would be triggering my abilities. Then, I would be doing anything to become part of opera singing. You should only think of making that dream reality. Don’t rush – that’s when dreams come true really fast. It is good when a man says – I am only trying to make my dreams come true.
20. It is better to communicate with a good book than with an empty man.
Mikhail Litvak
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Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour.
Pascal Quignard
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La violence s’oppose si peu à la faiblesse que la faiblesse n’a souvent pas d’autre symptôme que la violence.
Vladimir Jankélévitch, Le pur et l'impur
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Il faut, pour la marche en avant du genre humain, qu'il y ait sur les sommets en permanence de fières leçons de courage. Les témérités éblouissent l'histoire et sont une des grandes clartés de l'homme. L'aurore ose quand elle se lève. Tenter, braver, persister, persévérer, s'être fidèle à soi-même, prendre corps à corps le destin, étonner la catastrophe par le peu de peur qu'elle nous fait, tantôt affronter la puissance injuste, tantôt insulter la victoire ivre, tenir bon, tenir tête ; voilà l'exemple dont les peuples ont besoin, et la lumière qui les électrise. Le même éclair formidable va de la torche de Prométhée au brûle-gueule de Cambronne.
Victor Hugo, Les misérables
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“I don’t argue about being called minimal or minimalist, or whatever. But, in the work, I’m always trying to look for the essential. I’m more like an essentialist, I suppose. It’s about trying to find clarity in the work and refining it until it’s as good as it can get.”
John Pawson
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Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-halls, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.
Carl Gustav Jung, "New Paths in Psychology" in CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
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