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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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twice I have lived forever in a smile ↗

— E.E. Cummings

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Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows. ↗

— Ana Castillo

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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! ↗

— Frank O'Hara

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Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more. ↗

— Tony Hoagland

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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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