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When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that. ↗

— John Legend

#hand #help #impoverished #people #power

You’re not quite the one because you don’t feel permanent. You’re lovely. You’re here. You’re soft and comfortable and I can curl up beside you and hey, at least neither of us are alone. You don’t feel like the start of something, you feel like the continuation of nothing. You’re not quite the one because we’re not even thinking about crazy concepts like the “one.” No one is meeting anyone’s parents. No one is going to be a plus-one at anyone’s friend’s weddings. No one is holding hands on the subway train. You’re not quite the one because you’re not meant to be the one. You’re a bookmark, a beautiful pause, a blinking light on hold at an office desk. ↗

— Karen Noble

#love #quite-the-one #beauty

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#cultural #erudition #interfere #poem #poet

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#audience #gestural #much #poem #precise

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#always #elections #here #people #pocketbook

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. ↗