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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

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Either move or be moved.

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Wars are made to make debt.

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America is a lunatic asylum.

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Rhythm is form cut into time.

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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus Author

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

Amartya Sen Economist

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Anais Nin Author

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery Writer

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

Barack Obama 44th U.S. President

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Bertrand Russell Philosopher

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