Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

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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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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ― Mark Strand

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ― Alan Watts

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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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