“What falls away is always. And is near.”

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American poet 1908–1963

The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

“The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams
Of inaccessible Utopia.
A mountainous music always seemed
To be falling and to be passing away.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

“When I throw away what I don't want, it will fall within reach.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.
Voces (1943)

“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

William Pfaff (1928–2015) American journalist

Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63.

“Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.”

James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet

What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.”

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Italian writer, historian and politician

L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)

“Non-warlike revolutionists fall into a tragic blunder when they enter into a united front with communists or near-communists.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

Property (1935)

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

On the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the USA's credit rating, as quoted in Obama Counsels Calm, but No Deal Is in Sight http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/us/politics/09obama.html", The New York Times (8 August 2011)] <br class="br">2011, Remarks on the economy (July 2011)

“It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

“What falls away is always. And is near.”

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