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A Poetry Handbook

by Mary Oliver

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

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“Say you promise to be at your desk in the evenings, from seven to nine. It waits, it watches. If you are reliably there, it begins to show itself-- soon it begins to arrive when you do.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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“With money I earned by myself, I gave my daughter a room just so she can read in peace for a day. And I sat there and watched her read, sipping a scotch from the bar. And I cried like a baby. And Lina, my little Lina, she said, 'Mama, why are you crying?' And I said, ' I know how God feels now.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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“...so long as you stay in orbit you will be OK, you will not feel crestfallen, not once. You might miss home, you might feel exhausted, you might feel like you're an animal in a cage, you might get lonely, but you will never, never be crestfallen”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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“The sight of him made Tomáš feel how much he missed these people who feared nothing and seemed bound by a deep friendship.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“A thousand sons must have been where he was now and turned back from their horses, wagons, rickshaws, cyclos, buses, schooners, trains, even dusty sandaled feet.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

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