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Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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The moment shimmered like a glass of full-bodied wine.
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I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
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Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
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When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
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I walk under the sickle moon
sharpened and new and whistling.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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If what we change does not change us
we are playing with blocks.
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Age
has gutted me to rubbing bones
knotted up in a leather sack.
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Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.
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The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
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Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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The body is simple as a turtle
and straight as a dog:
the body cannot lie.
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Memory's a freakish bank
where embarrassing treasures
still draw interest.
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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
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We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future
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Fear of rape is a cold wind blowing
all of the time on a woman's hunched back.
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Regret is a damp wind
off the used car lot
where most of our peers came to rest.
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All women are misfits, I think; we do not fit into this world without amputations.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Marge Piercy
Born:
March 31, 1936
(age 88)
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