poets advice

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
— e.e. cummings

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
— Samuel Langhorne Clemens - "The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It"

Naguib Mahfouz

It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
— Naguib Mahfouz "Sugar Street"

Salinger Three Stories

His face got triumphant — the way Kenneth’s face got triumphant; without implications of his having defeated or outdrawn anybody. The ocean was terrible now. It was full of bowling balls.
— J.D. Salinger "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls"

Haruki Murakami

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I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky
— Haruki Murakami