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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
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
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself

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