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“Idleness is an enemy of the soul.”

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Benedict of Nursia (480-543 AD) was a renowned Christian saint and the founder of the Benedictine Order. His life and teachings had a profound impact on the religious and cultural life of medieval Europe. more

“The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.”

Use Certain Effort Brain Drug Thousand Normal Yoga Resources Method Technique Permit Reduction Exaggeration Fractions Clumsy

Author:Tom Robbins

“Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Rain Window Curse

Author:Anne Sexton

“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”

Ifs Wells Reading Voice Differences Written Poet Instruments Staring Sheets Humming Sheet Music

Author:Robert Pinsky

“Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.”

Thinking Past Our Society Poetry Is Humankind Exile Modernity

Author:Octavio Paz

“In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.”

People Want Next Cheer Pessimist Next Life

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.”

Giving Should Littles Brain Thousand Six Dollars Investing Breasts Surgeons

Author:Mike Royko

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