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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself

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