There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The music is in minors.
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The poetry is myself.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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