Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 46

• Title deeds generally outlast poems.

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  Poetry, Deeds, Titles

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• When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

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  Poetry, Machines, Bees

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• Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

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  Poetry, Gaps, Muse

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• Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

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  Religion, Dirt, Purpose

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• The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

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  Money, Religion, May

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• A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

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  Religion, Metaphor, Theology

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• The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

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  Religion, Sacred, Boring

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• Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, People

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• Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

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  Beauty, Guarantees, World

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• Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

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  Beauty, Reason

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• I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Significant

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• A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?

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  Wall, Thoughtful, Boys

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• Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Years

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• Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

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  Fate, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

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  Travel, Home, Thinking

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• Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Color

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• Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Life Is

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• No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Sticks

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• Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

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  Music, Numbers, Silent

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• The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

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  Music, Clouds, Dancing

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• To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Two

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• As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

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  Wisdom, Age, Aging

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• Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

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  Wisdom, Affair, Lost

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• Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

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  Wisdom, Return, Embrace

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• My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

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  Wisdom, Mentor, Age

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