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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out…
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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted…
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in…
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I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he…
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which…
— Edward Hirsch
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.
— Joyce Meyer
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Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
— Ellis Peters
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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