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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
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Life is not at all what you might think it to be
A simple tale where each thing has its history
It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes
Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.
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Extreme patience and persistence are required,
Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Born:
July 28, 1927
Died:
September 3, 2017
(aged 90)
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