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Florence Anthony (October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010) was an American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa (Japanese : Literally: "Love Stream" ). She won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.


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Quote Left So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Quote Right
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Quote Left I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Quote Right
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Quote Left The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. Quote Right
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Quote Left Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things