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She believed in her poetry, and she knew her craft thoroughly. In her poems, she wrote about the crucial issues of her life, but she made expert art from those issues. She voiced anger as well as hope; she spoke of sorrow as well as joy.
“Life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
― A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
― A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“Nada é mais prejudicial à cegueira voluntária do que as palavras de quem enxerga.”
― O Garoto-Cabra
― O Garoto-Cabra
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
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