He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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Unknown
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Mark Twain
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
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E.B. White
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.
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Phil Lester
More Quotes By Yusef Komunyakaa
Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotelthe need gotta beso deep words can'tanswer simple questionsall night long notesstumble off the tongue& color the air indigoso deep fragments of gut& flesh cling to the songyou gotta get into itso deep...
I’ve been here before, dreaming myselfbackwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every wordspoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?
See how forgiving - how brave nature is.
I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)
Years ago you followed someonehere, in love with breathkissing the nape of your neck, back when it was easy to beat least two places at once.
