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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

by Drew Afualo

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Holly’s Quotes

“I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.”
― James Dickey

tags: writing-poetry

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“The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fiction, latin-american, romance

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“Isn't it far better to live a poetic life than to spend one's life writing Poetry?”
― Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos

tags: pietros-maneos, poem, poetic-life, poetry, poetry-quotes, romanticism, writing-poems, writing-poetry

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“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”
― C.J. Heck

tags: poetry, write-alive, writing, writing-poetry

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“Little did she yet understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child’s body changes with puberty, but when her mind is finally able to see her life through the eyes of an outsider.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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