Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ― Robert Frost

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.― Santosh Kalwar

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ― John Green

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If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

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