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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
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
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 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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity

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