I Wanted to Be a Poem

Ivan Marchuk

I believed I wanted to be a poet but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

~ Jaime Gil de Biedma

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By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.

~ Umberto Eco

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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

~ Jane Goodall

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…the Dunning-Krueger effect is a psychological paradox that we all often encounter in our lives: less competent people consider themselves professionals, and more competent people tend to doubt themselves and their abilities.

~ From Generation Skeptics

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge, even wisdom.

Like art.

~ Toni Morrison

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