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• Poems are small moments of enlightenment.

  Natalie Goldberg

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• Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That’s what it means to be an object.

  Mary Kinzie

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• The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

  Shannon A. Thompson

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• Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

  Mina Loy

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• I am terrified by this dark thing
  That sleeps in me;
  All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

  Sylvia Plath

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• Love’s night and a lamp
  Judged our vows:
  That she would love me ever
  And I should never leave her.

  Meleager

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• Poetry is a field where England can take on all challengers.

  Patrick Leigh Fermor

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• “They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them” from the poem – STAY in the Book – RidingTheEscalator

  Jay Woodman

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• “like sunlight under their skins, they want to be loved” from the poem STAY in RidingTheEscalator

  Jay Woodman

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• “just a little bit longer, sing: like rain, like sand, like wind in the night, prickling” from the poem – STAY from the book “Riding the Escalator

  Jay Woodman

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• “All in tune with love and the slow world moving” from the poem – STAY from the book – RidingTheEscalator

  Jay Woodman

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• So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.

  Trinka Polite

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• Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.

  Adrienne Rich

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• You are someone and you have a right to your life.

  Richard Hugo

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• …loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside … but from there you can see the stars…

  John Geddes

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• Emotion is the poetry of life.

  Marty Rubin

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• Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• In this world, love is never long enough—but for the redeemed, love continues in heaven and on the new earth, forever!

  Cycle Girl

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• Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

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• He wants my knees to bend to the bells. I hope there’s rhythm in Hell.

  Casey Renee Kiser

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