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Some of you have called me aloof, and drunk with my own aloneness and you have said, “he holds counsel with the trees of the forest but not with men.” Walt Whitman
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Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal. Parker Palmer
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He moves along the edge and, once the decision is made, will have been neither one of the living nor of the dead. Rilke
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Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. William Stafford
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More effective than space shuttles, more penetrating than warp-speed starships, and more probing than Mars-rovers, poetry takes us far, far away to a reality that is at once our own and absolutely alien. Thomas Moore