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Discovery Quote by Marie Howe

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“When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.”

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“Even If I Don’t See it Again Even if I don’t see it again.–nor ever feel it I know it is–and that if once…

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I am living. I remember you.

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Poetry is telling something to someone.

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“I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world would be the space my brother’s body made.”

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“ WHAT THE LIVING DO Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there. And the Drano won't…

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But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store,…

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Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

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Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

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A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

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Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for…

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