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We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
Senses
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
Life
Want
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
Love
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman
Lie
Emotions
Language
Moods
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Diane Ackerman
Money
Success
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
Childhood
Mountains
Nothing
Summer
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
Country
End
Lies
Mystery
Will
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Life
End
Want