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 BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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