"Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence."

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My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

— Anne Waldman