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Diane Ackerman
American
Poet
Born:
Oct 7
,
1948
Animals
Living
Nature
Own
Time
Will
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Robert Frost
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
Diane Ackerman
Peace
Garden
Singing
Living
Find
Generally
Parts
May
Scratching
Regard
Midst
Organism
Warring
Many
Whole
Thing
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
Diane Ackerman
God
Nature
Try
Build
Dust
Ourselves
Inside
Some
Something
More
More And More
Outside
Like
Forbid
Houses
Because
Always
Exile
Dismiss
Cockroach
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
Diane Ackerman
Positive
Peace
Living
Ways
Hopefully
Takes
Household
Couples
Learn
Another
Years
Anyone
Skill
Many
Keep
Adapt
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
Diane Ackerman
Good
Enjoy
Think
Lying
Consider
Admire
Very
Fiction
Form
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