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"I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not."
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"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
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"creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. iโ€™ve carried the shame of being a โ€˜creativeโ€™ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit."
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"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while."
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"Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds."
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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"โ€œIf we surrenderedto earthโ€™s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again...to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly.โ€"
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"โ€œGATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leaves No better than spoons,And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace,Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed,And what have I then?Next to nothing for weight,And since they grew duller From contact with earth,Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?โ€"
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"โ€œThe blood jet is poetry,There is no stopping it.--from Kindness, written 1 February 1963โ€"
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"โ€œSometimes I want a quiet lifeother times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.โ€"
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"โ€œThe winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.โ€"
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"โ€œWomen who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really beโ€"
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"โ€œTime is all we have and donโ€™t.ย โ€"
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"โ€œI think I like my brain bestin a bar fight with my heart. I think I like myself a little broken,with rough edges, a little harderto grasp. I like poetrybetter than therapy anyway. The poems never judge mefor healing wrong.โ€"
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"โ€œShe walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all thatโ€™s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowโ€™d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less,Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,Or softly lightens oโ€™er her face;Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and oโ€™er that brow,So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,The smiles that win, the tints that glow,But tell of days in goodness spent,A mind at peace with all A heart whose love is innocent!โ€"
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"โ€œI feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.โ€"
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"โ€œI dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I made you up inside my head.)--from Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle, written 1954โ€"
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"โ€œThe world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.โ€"
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"โ€œbecause two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul,oh total being...โ€"
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"โ€œAnd so sepรบlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.โ€"
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