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“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
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“Seeing her again was like unearthing an emotional library card with a lot of overdues.”
― The Cold Dish
― The Cold Dish
“Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.”
― The Magnificent Defeat
― The Magnificent Defeat
“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
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