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Sometimes after dinner he could be coaxed into reciting “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” a long and thrilling ballad by the British-Canadian poet Robert Service, that he had learned by heart.
My grandpa loved Robert W. Service. His favorite poem was The Cremation of Sam McGee.
“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Missing Joseph
― Missing Joseph
“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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