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Ellen Bass has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly,…
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Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
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It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential…
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Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way…
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There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your…
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love…
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Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.
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I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced…
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I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
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Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to…
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of…
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt…
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