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God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.
Richard Zimler
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Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.
Li-Young Lee
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You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.
Lynn Nottage
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The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.
Donna Ball
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If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.
Sam Hamill
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Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
Diane Glancy
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That enchantment that I lightly took
Out of the lovely April is for ever.
Léonie Adams
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Tell me thou all pervading mind,
When I this life forsake,
Must ev'ry tender tie unbind,
Each sweet connection break?
Ann Eliza Bleecker
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My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
Countee Cullen
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People often choose to misunderstand if it makes life more interesting.
Carlene Thompson
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Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.
Elinor Wylie
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
Tennessee Williams
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You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.
Ralph Fletcher
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Painters are so bitchy. Magritte told Miró that Kandinsky had feet of Klee.
Told to Ned Sherrin
Dick Vosburgh
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One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.
Mel Odom (author)
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Hollywood – a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Laurence Stallings
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Oh! sing it in the light of freedom's morn,
Tho' tyrant wars have made the earth a grave;
The good, the great, and true, are, if so born,
And so with slaves, chains do not make the slave!
Albery Allson Whitman
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The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it.
Ronald Sukenick
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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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" Tis plain to me
As A B C,
My dear friend, Mr. Neff!"
"Oh, yes! but then,"
Says Mr. N,
"You know I'm D E F!"
Charles Follen Adams
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Only Death could teach us love
By Death we shall grow wise.
Anna Hempstead Branch
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I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.
Peter Meinke
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We are the whirlwinds that winnow the West—
We scatter the wicked like straw!
We are the Nemeses, never at rest—
We are Justice, and Right, and the Law!
Margaret Ashmun
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Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw—
Harriet Winslow Sewall
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I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
W. S. Merwin
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