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The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living...
Carlos Bulosan
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So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.
Linda Gregg
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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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Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
Henry Abbey
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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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Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it
Charles Simić
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I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.
Gary Snyder
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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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Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let
Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday,
The faded glimmer of a sunshine set?
Is it that in your darkness, shut from strife,
The bread of tears becomes the bread of life?
Far from the roar of day, beneath your boughs
Fresh griefs beat tranquilly, and loves and vows
Grow green in your gray shadows, dearer far
Even than all lovely lights and roses are?
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
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You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
Dean Young (poet)
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A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.
Lewis Hyde
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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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The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.
Patricia Monaghan
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Shall I not bless the middle years?
Not I for youth repine.
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
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Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney
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When you win, we win; but when you go down, you go down alone.
Luis J. Rodriguez
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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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But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
Margaret Junkin Preston
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The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
Paul Monette
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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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Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
Robert Hass
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It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.
Diane di Prima
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Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.
Louis Untermeyer
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Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel's burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.
Dudley Randall
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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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