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“Might verse not best confuse itself with fate?”

Book:Complete Poems

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Complete Poems

This book gathers a wide range of poems, showcasing various styles and themes from the author's career. more

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Marianne Moore

American poet known for her unique modernist style and profound philosophical insights. Her poetry is concise and insightful, often exploring themes of nature, art, and the human condition. more

“she doesn’t have a fate. A fate. You know what it’s like to have a fate; you also know what it’s like to escape one. . . . As for loving America or not loving America, those aren’t your problems, either. Your word for love is survival. Everything else is a story that isn’t about you.”

Fate Story

Book:America Is Not the Heart

Source: America Is Not the Heart

“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.”

God Nativity

Book:The Everlasting Man

Source: The Everlasting Man

“When you lose your path, have you ever thought that may be the place you lost your path also lost its path and the two of you are looking for where the true path are? And such a thought will comfort you because now you have a friend who has the same fate as you!”

Way Lost Fate Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Paths Lost Quotes Losing Path

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Hvad er du bange for? spørger skoven. Og svaret er let nok. Jeg er bange for at være til grin. Jeg er bange for at have svigtet mig selv. Jeg er bange for ikke at have brugt livets gave godt nok. Jeg er bange for, at jeg har været Bent en dårlig kone. Jeg er bange for, at jeg har været Laura en dårlig mor.”

Fate Forces Of Nature Middle Age

Book:Bjørnen

Source: Bjørnen

“One way to embrace the unexpected is to be on the lookout for, and respect, coincidence. I do not necessarily believe in fate, but, for me, coincidental occurrence strengthens my belief that I'm on the right path.”

Fate Self Awareness Coincidence

Book:Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work

Source: Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work

“I didn't want you to fall in love with me because of fate...I wanted you to fall in love with me simply because you couldn't help yourself.”

Love Marriage Fate Fortune Hoover Coho

Book:All Your Perfects

Source: All Your Perfects

“. . . his heart stopped beating long ago. Only one person could make it beat again: his one true love. They said his kiss had been fatal to all but her - his only weakness.”

Love Heart Fate Weakness

Book:Legendary

Source: Legendary

“We do not know our fate. This may be a forever goodbye; it may only be for years. My love for you will never waver, however long or however far.”

Love Fate

Book:Paper Wife

Source: Paper Wife

“More terrible, to see how feline Fate will sometimes dally with a human soul, and by a nameless magic make it repulse a sane despair with a hope which is but mad. Unwittingly I imp this cat-like thing, sporting with the heart of him who reads; for if he feel not he reads in vain.”

Hope Reading Fate Madness Feeling

Book:The Piazza Tales

Source: The Piazza Tales

“Our bodies are the thin knife's edge separating us from oblivion.”

Life Fate Flesh Mortality Being Human Bodies

Book:The Nix

Source: The Nix

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