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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Block Jobs Waiting
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Get One Thing Over

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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