Adrienne Rich Quotes, Greed Quotes, May Quotes

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

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Always scorn appearances and you always may.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

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