„I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.“

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— John Donne

The Triple Fool, stanza 1
Quelle: The Complete English Poems

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John Donne4

englischer Schriftsteller 1572 - 1631

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— Bill Trader American singer-songwriter 1922 - 2003

(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I (1952)

„I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.“

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— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992

"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s

„Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.“

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

„What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.“

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— Lesley Bricusse English composer, lyricist and playwright 1931

Song What kind of fool am I?

„I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.“

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— Charles Darwin British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" 1809 - 1882

recollection http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

„I know that I am an important factor in the development of art and shall forever remain so. I say this with great emphasis, so that one can not say, at a later date: 'The poor fellow had no inkling of how important he was'. No I am no fool, nor am I timid. I know full well that the time will come for me and all other important personalities of the abstract movement, when we will influence an entire generation. However, I fear that I shall not experience this.“

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— Kurt Schwitters German artist 1887 - 1948

1930s
Quelle: 'I and my purpose', in the journal 'Merz', no. 21, (1931)

„I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.“

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— Thomas Hardy, buch Far from the Madding Crowd

Quelle: Far from the Madding Crowd

„Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!“

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— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

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Quelle: Death of a Salesman (1949)

„I am very interested in memorization which is the process of incorporating a poem, so, I would say the kind of poetry I write is the kind that emphasises the physical qualities of the words.“

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— Robert Pinsky American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940

WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season

„I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.“

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— William Carlos Williams American poet 1883 - 1963

Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)
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„I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love“

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— Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966

Quelle: The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941

„I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.“

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— Jennifer Garner American actress 1972

Jennifer Garner interview: Still the girl next door http://www.nj.com/entertainment/movies/index.ssf/2012/08/jennifer_garner_interview.html

„I trust that I am honest with myself. I know that I am not very sociable and I expect to go on being so; a man capable of creative work has no time to spare for fools who would like to visit.“

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— Robert A. Heinlein, buch The Number of the Beast

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 249

„I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.“

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— Marguerite Yourcenar, buch Memoirs of Hadrian

Quelle: Memoirs of Hadrian

„There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.“

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— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Speech in http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html Nashville, Tennessee, (September 17, 2002), in which the president confused a centuries-old proverb ("Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.")
2000s, 2002