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Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.
Richard Henry Stoddard
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When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
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I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow
stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth,
swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling,
somewhere else it gets back up.
Bob Hicok
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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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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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Incense smokes, and love takes care,
In her blue bed the virgin died;
The fire broods, the day falls,
The Angel, sisters, knocks on the door.
Stuart Merrill
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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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Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!
Lydia Sigourney
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I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
Sharon Olds
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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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I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain thou'lt hear Tales of ships.
Charles Henry Webb
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If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps.
Anthony Hecht
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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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Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
Kay Ryan
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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 street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
Charles Reznikoff
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Ah, me! the Prison House of Pain! — what lessons there are bought! — Lessons of a sublimer strain Than any elsewhere taught.
Florence Earle Coates
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We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.
Janice Mirikitani
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A fastened woman
can be messed with, one too many times.
Nikky Finney
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night
Mari Evans
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
Stephen Dunn
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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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Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.
Rae Armantrout
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I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.
Ruth Whitman
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Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has "struck out."
Ernest Thayer
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