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“As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.”
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“We don't believe in rheumatism or true love until we have been attacked by them.”
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“Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. 'Never leave me,' it says; 'do not abandon me.'”
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“An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.”
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“The present is the wave that explodes over my head, flinging the air with particles at the height of its breathless unroll; it is the live water and light that bears from undisclosed sources the freshest news, renewed and renewing, world without end.”
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“Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.”
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“Oh you, the hour when the work of the world, the hunt for our food, is done — / Love me, my ultimate Darkness, kiss me, my infinite Sun!”
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“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.”