Karl Shapiro said, "Poetry is a separate language. It's a language in which you never really come to the point. You're always at an angle."

"We plant merit with our minds, and we commit crimes with our minds. With our minds, we imprint images. This one mind is like an artist. It can draw anything, and what it draws is realized. If you surrender your impressions, ideas, thoughts, and so on at the moment they arise without imprinting them on your mind, your minds will not be tainted, just as the lotus flower is not tainted by the muddy water whence it grows."

-Jae Woong Kim, Polishing The Diamond

Albert Camus said, "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
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Today is Joni Mitchell's 61st birthday. Happy birthday, Joni!