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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
Amy Lowell
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It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.
Archibald Rutledge
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Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
Mary Jo Salter
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To rid the grass of weed, to get
The whole root,
Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
And desire - to make clean, make pure.
The weed, tough
As the rock it leaps against,
Unless plucked to the last
Live fiber
Will plunge up through dark again.
The weed also has the desire
To make clean,
Make pure, there against the rock.
Lucien Stryk
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Every day I am deluged with reminders
that this is not
my land
and this is my land.
I do not believe in the war between races
but in this country
there is war.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
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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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My beloved soul,
having awakened at last into My Peace,
you can return consciously and
completely to your own Original Source.
As this homecoming fills you
with in expressible joy
it pervades Allah Most High
with profound delight as well
(You will) experience the perfect union
with Love that is My highest Paradise.
Lex Hixon
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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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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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Dusk over the lake,
clouds floating
heat lightning
a nightmare behind branches
Carolyn Kizer
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Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
Henry Abbey
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was.
Mary Karr
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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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The combination of song, prayer, and poetry is a natural form of expression for many Navajo people. A person who is able to 'talk beautifully' is well thought of and considered wealthy...
Luci Tapahonso
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To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
Jack Gilbert
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Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.
Estela Portillo-Trambley
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A fastened woman
can be messed with, one too many times.
Nikky Finney
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So much to live for.
Each rope rings
a different bell.
Ted Kooser
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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children;…whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benediction.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
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its music comes out the radio
drives beside me in my car. strolls along with me
down supermarket aisles
it's on television
and in the streets even when my walk is casual/undefined
it's overhead flashing lights
i find it in my mouth
when i would speak of other things.
Wanda Coleman
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The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
George Oppen
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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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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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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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