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"Nomad {Couplet} When your roots grow from the outside in,home becomes whatever place you're in."

"Grave Dancing for Dummies {Couplet} They danced at my grave when I was buried at sea;with my haters drowned, I'm now totally free."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness."

"You might want to lie down,"Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in."

"Finish Off Your Enemies If you finish off your enemiesdo they wind up more charming and with better manners?"

"When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own."

"That's what any decent mind ought to do for its owner when she lets it off the leash - just go bounding away into the long grass and bring back a really profound thought, laying it at her feet all furry and palpitating. C'mon now. Hey los'!"

"Break All the Rules of Poetry Place no limits on your poetry.Live a little.Break all the fucking rules!If it comes deep from the wellsprings of your imagination,the woolgathering of dreamers ~it is poetry ~no matter what anyone says."

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."

"She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination."

"Preserving Beauty [10w] + {Couplet} Preserving beauty is futile;even Cleopatra returned to the Nile."

"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."

"Measuring Love The only scientist who can measure love is the onewho's in love with another scientist."

"... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God."

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

"Obscure Poetry Obscurity does not make a poem better or deeper.It simply makes it obscure."

"Party Hat [10w] Circus clowns, Frenchmen, and sanitation workers look better in party-hats.."

"Thoughts are as simple as the process…a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind"