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The Birchbark House
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Lucille Clifton
“the lesson of the falling leaves

the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves”
Lucille Clifton

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sometimes I say to a poem,

"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."

And the poem will often
Respond

By climbing onto a barroom table:

Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.”
شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift

Lao Tzu
“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
Lao Tse

Ivan Turgenev
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev

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