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• If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Self, Feet, Giving

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• I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone

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• This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

  John Adams

  Christian, Joy, Religion

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• I see a city in the desert lies
  The vanity of an ancient king
  But the city lies in broken pieces
  While the wind howls and the vultures sing

  Sting

  Kings, Lying, Vanity

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• Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life Is

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.46, Vintage

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Sweet, Hate, Moving

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• Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Self, Foam

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.5729, e-artnow

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• John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements of all three. I think that's pretty wise. That's about the only way I know how to explain what music is.

  John K. Samson

  Wise, Prayer, Thinking

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• I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

  John Lennon

  Guitar, Play, I Can

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• I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.

  Karen Karbo

  Queens, Writing, Moon

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• Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
  Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
  As if the Known Sea still were a month wide--
  Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Ocean, Sleep

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.67, Macmillan

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• A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

  Rebecca West

  Change, Drama, Play

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• I refuse to be. In
  the madhouse of the inhuman
  I refuse to live.
  With the wolves of the market place
  I refuse to howl.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Nazism, Rebellion, Refuse

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet

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• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
  Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
  Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
  Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Flesh, Today

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• There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Alcohol, Owl

  Edward Lear (2009). “The Book of Nonsense”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

  John Colton

  Pain, Broken, Rose

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• How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

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• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Wine, Government

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

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• The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

  Madame Roland

  Sheep, Weakness, Ass

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• Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing.

  Lois Crisler

  Running, Distance, Waiting

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• I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

  Pauly Shore

  Mean, Moon, Sides

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• It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Blow, Sound, Cracks

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• It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Abuse, Easier, Relate

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