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To Touch the Sky and Never Know the Ground Again: Poems

by Edward Lee (Goodreads Author)

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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in earnest.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

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