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Quote by Samuel Daniel

“When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.”

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Samuel Daniel was an English poet, born in 1562 and died on October 14, 1619. His poetry works held a significant place in 17th-century English literature, known for their elegant rhythms and profound emotions. more

“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Two Country Stories Seems Brain Pieces Groups Week Century Ten Limits Filled China Data Borders Traveled Analysts Crawling Filing

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.”

Mean Two Quality Talking Illness Mental Illness Variety Insanity Nuts Day To Day Not Talking Duration

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Poems come from incomplete knowledge.”

Poetry Incomplete Incomplete Knowledge

Book:Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987

Source: Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987

“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”

Way Should Pleasure Secret Poet Reader Findings Revealing Ingenious Matched Unlocking

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.”

Language Civilization Essentials Essence Structure Myth Tales Poetry Is Ritual Tribes

Author:Diane Wakoski

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