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Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.
Michael Schmidt
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I love the friendly faces of old sorrows;
I have no secrets that they do not know.
Karle Wilson Baker
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A fastened woman
can be messed with, one too many times.
Nikky Finney
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I will garden on the double run,
my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
and work until my heart is short,
then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
from cramps and the lack of oxygen.
Richard Hugo
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Etheridge Knight
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When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.
Celia Thaxter
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Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
Clarence Day
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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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Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.
Richard Realf
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Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
or a pile of rubble.
Lucia Perillo
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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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And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.
Bill Knott (poet)
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Alice Cary
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People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.
Amy Gerstler
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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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The Sun! The Sun! a fish in the aquarium of sky or golden net to snare the butterfly of soul or else the hole through which stars have disappeared...
Harry Crosby
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On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Theodore O'Hara
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Is it for miracles
We live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my room Like a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters: "Why ask questions?" or, "What are the questions you wish to ask?"
James Schuyler
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My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.
Michael McClure
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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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When I behold the heavens as in their prime,
And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,
The stones and trees, insensible of time,
Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
Anne Bradstreet
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The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.
Phyllis McGinley
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Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
Sarah Kay (poet)
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Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.
Tony Hoagland
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The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
Paul Monette
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