The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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