Vanna Bonta

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Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"
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Collection: Needs
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Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.
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Collection: Heart
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Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.
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Collection: Ideas
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We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
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Collection: Time
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I became a total yes. We don't even have names anymore.
- Vanna Bonta
Collection: Love
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Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.
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Collection: Love
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Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.
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Collection: Time
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Understanding precedes peace.
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Collection: Peace
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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
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Collection: Vocabulary
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I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.
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Collection: Prayer
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Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
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Collection: Friends
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Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.
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Collection: Time
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Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
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Collection: Fear
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Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.
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Collection: Recognition
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She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.
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Collection: Night
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Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.
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Collection: Attitude
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The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.
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Collection: Artist
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The height of mediocrity is still low.
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Collection: Mediocrity
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The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.
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Collection: Men
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The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.
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Collection: Pain
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Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
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Collection: Mathematics
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Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
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Collection: Leadership
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Money is only a human invention.
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Collection: Money
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Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.
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Collection: Fiction
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You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
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Collection: Pain
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High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
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Collection: Political
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Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
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Collection: Character
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Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.
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Collection: Adventure
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People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.
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Collection: Eye
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There are infinite possibilities.
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Collection: Infinite
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The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.
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Collection: Reality
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When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.
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Collection: Adventure
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We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.
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Collection: Beautiful
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We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
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Collection: Gardening
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There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
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Collection: World
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Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
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Collection: People
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Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?
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Collection: Play
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Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
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Collection: Poetry
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'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.
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Collection: Dream
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Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.
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Collection: Life
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There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!
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Collection: Looks
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Don't count your check-ins before they cash.
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Collection: Cash
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A poet's first contract is with truth.
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Collection: Firsts
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People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
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Collection: People
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Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.
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Collection: Heart
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Always is no Time at all.
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Collection: Time
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Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
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Collection: Life
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Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
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Collection: Confession