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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
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Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
―
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
― A Poetry Handbook
― A Poetry Handbook
“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
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