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I would rather be fooled than not believe.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Fooled
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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it
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Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
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When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
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