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What does not change is the will to change
(Charles Olson (1910-1970), U.S. poet. The Kingfishers (l. 1). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Black Cottage, North of Boston (1914).)
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imploring pinkpalmed hand
twitching, autonomous,
hung from an ordinary
black arm
(the lights change,
it's gone)
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Whisper.")
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This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Player King, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2, l. 200-1.
On the theme of mutability.)
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Black Cottage, North of Boston (1914).)
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Black Cottage, North of Boston (1914).)
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For as change is horror,
Virtue is really stubbornness
And only in the light of lost words
Can we imagine our rewards.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers.")
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