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Go sow your wild oats
And reap as you will;
I hoe in one furrow
And heap all my fill.
Eve Merriam
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We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
Walt Whitman
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A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.
Mark Nepo
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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
Clarence Day
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I'm sorry I cannot say I love you when you say you love me. The words, like moist fingers, appear before me full of promise but then run away to a narrow black room that is always dark, where they are silent, elegant, like antique gold, devouring the thing I feel.
Henri Cole
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One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
Saladin Ahmed
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On the beryl-rimmed rebecs of Ruby
Brought fresh from the hyaline streams,
She played on the banks of the Yuba
Such songs as she heard in her dreams.
Thomas Holley Chivers
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Neal Cassady
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One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob...
Mona Van Duyn
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Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.
Pat Schneider
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Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?
Joy Davidman
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The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
Paul Monette
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O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!
Thomas William Parsons
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Our children are beauty
with the right to be born.
Born anew at each a.m.
Like a child out of twilight,
flying toward sunlight,
Born anew at each a.m.
Piri Thomas
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I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
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Nature repeats herself, or almost does: repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.
Richard Realf
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These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... the hour
Before the dawn... the mouth of one
Just dead.
Adelaide Crapsey
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They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
Lucille Clifton
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Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
something that can not be said.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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So much to live for.
Each rope rings
a different bell.
Ted Kooser
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His art is eccentricity, his aim
How not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,
His passion how to avoid the obvious,
His technique how to vary the avoidance.
The others throw to be comprehended. He Throws to be a moment misunderstood.
Robert Francis (poet)
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