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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

To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
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
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Boys Eden Girl

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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