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If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours


James Jones


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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;


William Wordsworth


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Dogfish I wanted The past to go away, I wanted To leave it, like another country; I wanted My life to close, and open Like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song Where it falls Down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted To hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, Whoever I was, I was Alive For a little while. …mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, Or mean, For a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to Swim through the fires to stay in This world.


Mary Oliver


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I am becoming the woman I've wanted, grey at the temples, soft body, delighted, cracked up by life with a laugh that's known bitter but, past it, got better, knows she's a survivor-- that whatever comes, she can outlast it. I am becoming a deep weathered basket. I am becoming the woman I've longed for, the motherly lover with arms strong and tender, the growing up daughter who blushes surprises. I am becoming full moons and sunrises. I find her becoming, this woman I've wanted, who knows she'll encompass, who knows she's sufficient, knows where she's going and travels with passion. Who remembers she's precious, but knows she's not scarce-- who knows she is plenty, plenty to share.


Jayne Brown


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A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.


Jeanette Winterson


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What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?


W.H. Davies


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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...


Fernando Pessoa


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Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you


Benny Bellamacina


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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness


Muriel Rukeyser


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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.


Euripides


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