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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.


Thom Gunn


#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.


Vaclav Havel


#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.


Davey Havok


#attempt #commercial #commercial success #enjoy #far

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.


John Hawkes


#attempt #bores #civilisation #crowning #done

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.


Frank Herbert


#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.


Etty Hillesum


#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.


James Hillman


#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.


Heinrich Himmler


#attempt #break #case #day #enemy

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.


Douglas Horton


#attempting #bang #bangs #death #door

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.


Thomas Huxley


#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds






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