Some speak of things we know, as new;
And you, of things unknown as things forgot.
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"Quoting an Also Private Thought" (this poem is a very slight reworking of an earlier poem "As Has Been Said")Marianne Moore
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There was constant talk about hewing things and ravaging things and splitting things asunder. Lots of big talk of things being mighty, and of things being riven, and of things being in thrall to other things, but very little attention given, as I now realise, to the laundry.
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For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
Hermann Hesse
We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Jim Morrison
There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort— things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them— are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.
E. E. Cummings
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